Bullets for the Battle

The Bullet of Destruction of Worry: The Divided Mind

Worry is one of … if not the … greatest illness of modern man. Anxiety is as great a stress to one’s emotional health as too much exercise is to one whose body is out of shape. For example, ask a man who is in poor physical condition to do fifty push-ups and he’ll never finish. He will also be exhausted from the eighteen or twenty he completed! Worry … physically illustrated … is life trying to do fifty push-ups a day when you can only handle twenty. Exhaustion eventually disintegrates the emotional health. Worry is a subtle and deadly killer.

The word for worry in the Greek language is merimnao, composed of two words: merizo which means “to divide” and nous which means to “mind.” Worry is having a divided mind. The mind is divided between what is real and worthwhile as opposed to that which is empty and futile. If a person give himself only to what’s worthwhile and spurned the futile, then worry would cease! (Concern would continue, but there is a vast difference between worry and concern. Jesus was concerned but never worried!) Man’s dilemma comes in knowing and wanting what is real and worthwhile. Thousands of worldly options are being peddled, but Jesus Christ states that He alone can give us the ultimate lesson in reality and value. “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6). “Without Me there is no going! Without Me there is no knowing! Without Me there is no living!”