"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?" (Matt. 6:25)

According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the word "worry" comes from an old English word which means literally "to choke or strangle." Truthfully, that's what worry does to us. It chokes and strangles us, leaving us in a miserable, depressed condition.

Worry is a self imposed curse which we can be avoided. Someone has rightly said, "If it's bad enough to worry about, it's bad enough to pray about." Paul said, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Phil. 4:6-7)