Whaddifs & Howells?

For those of you who know me (which I hope if you're reading this you do) know that I am a constant worrier. I worry about yesterdays decisions, homework that's due 2 weeks from now, my golf swing, if I'll get through my devotion time, what will I do after I graduate, what if I don't get a job...I'm sure you get the picture. Well, I haven't been more reminded of how incredibly tedious playing the "Whaddifs and Howells" game really is on my emotions, and more importantly how taxing it is on my spiritual life. My boyfriend bought me a devotional about a month or so ago and it's called "Traveling Light" by Max Lucado. He goes through each verse of Psalms 23 and centers around the goal of how to release the burdens we were never intended to bear. The devotion that I was going through focused on verse 2 which says "He leads me beside still waters." To be honest I never really thought about this verse too much until I read this devotional. He leads me...He's not pushing me but guiding me and telling me where to go and where not to go and what to watch out for. God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes. Jesus really hit it home when he said in Matthew 6:27, " You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it." Wow, I am quite the idiot! haha His timing is perfect and He knows what we need. He has proven that so abundantly these last couple of months. He got me through my Graduate School application, my tiring golf season thus far, my intense school load, and has miraculously found me the perfect job with a kind, understanding, and compassionate boss. All things that I thought were so impossible, were a sinch to God and all I had to do was trust Him. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know he leads us and "we will find grace to help us when we need it." (Hebrews 4:16).