If you're like me, a super-huge worrywart, you worry from the time you wake up in the morning until the time you actually fall asleep. A good percentage of the time, the things I tend to worry about are so irrelevant that they don't even cross a normal person's mind, but here I am still worrying about them.

I have seriously worried myself sick on several occasions. Day in and day out, I worry about such silly things as what if people think horribly of me, what if my outfit doesn't look right, what if my day gets off schedule, what if God didn't hear my prayer, what if I did something to make God upset with me, what if I die right now... my life is basically one big "what if?" and it causes me to walk in fear. To be honest, I began writing this post at 12:27 AM because I was up worrying about something.

My issue with worrying comes from uncertainty in the "what if?" I have a thought process centered around "well, if ______ happens," then "_______ is going to happen," and "what if ______ happens?" It is a never ending cycle that messes with my life every single day and causes me to miss out on numerous things because I sit on the sidelines worrying.

Of course, to try to eliminate all of this worry in my life, I did the only thing I knew how to do: pray about it. But my goodness, when I didn't hear back from God in weeks, I started worrying about why he wasn't showing me an answer. (I know it's silly, right?)

In Luke chapter 12 verse 25, the Bible says "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?" And even though it is written plainly in the word of God that worrying will not get you anywhere in life, I still find myself doing it.

I have learned that I can't go through life stressing out over the "what ifs?" No matter what I do, there is going to be some type of uncertainty that I must deal with.

BUT, even though I don't know what's going to happen; God does. Inevitably, there are going to be things that go wrong, that's just part of being an imperfect person. Yet, we have to trust that no matter what happens, our sweet Savior has a picture perfect plan for our lives.

By placing my trust in Him and giving up my need to know every little detail before it even happens, my worry has started to fade some. I catch myself placing those thoughts of fear and anxiety in the back of my head because I know that everything that happens to me is God's will for my life. He makes no mistakes.

Life is practically a waiting game, and with waiting comes fear, doubt, uncertainty, and anxiety. But when we are uncertain of what's to come, our God is 100% sure. We just have to place ourselves aside and TRUST in His steadfast love and ever-true promises to us.

Philippians 4: 6-7 "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."