Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 1363 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomWorry Kills – Ask GrampsWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1363 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series. Each Friday, we will ponder some of the fundamental truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’  Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible. No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.


We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable.  If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com (mailto:guthrie@wisdom-trek.com)


So the question for this week is:


“Hey, Gramps, there is so much worry about today, and I find myself and others having a difficult time making sense of all that we are going through. I know that worry causes stress, which is very damaging to my health, but what advice do you have for me to help overcome worry?


Worry Kills


There is a story of two young recruits that had just been drafted into the Army to fight in World War II. They were both eighteen years of age. With good reason, both of them were scared of the unknown enemy that they would most certainly face. After their lieutenant handed them their uniforms and boots, he stood before them and said, “I know you are probably frightened. If you allow that worry overtake you, you will not come back from this war alive.”  He took one of the recruit’s boots and said, “let me give you a word picture that may help.” He called one of the boots ‘trust’ and the other one ‘obey.’ The lieutenant continued, “these are left and right boot of your Christian life. Walk confidently in them each day. While you may still have fear at times, but there is no other way to be walking by faith except to trust and obey that God will protect and guide you.”


Worldwide we are facing an even more insidious invisible enemy, but the same lesson applies to us today. Each day we need to put on the armor of God, starting with trusting and obeying God. He will see us through, and protect us from this enemy.  Allowing worry to overtake you is not healthy, and the long-term results to your health will be even worse than Covid-19.


Do you find that you worry a lot? Are you ever “struck with fear” or “seized with alarm?” Are you ever, “anxious and troubled?”  Jesus never said, “Don’t worry because there is nothing to worry about.” Instead, he called us friends and assures us that we are valuable in Luke 12:4-7 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12%3A4-7&version=NLT) , and we can apply these verses to our unseen enemy today. , “Dear friends, don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot do any more to you after that. But I’ll tell you whom to fear. Fear God, who has the power to kill you and then throw you into hell. Yes, he’s the one to fear. “What is the price of five sparrows—two copper coins? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be...