DON’T OVERTHINK IT!

Matthew 6:34 NIV Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I wonder if you're like me because I can overthink a bus ticket! My daughter will sometimes say to me “You’re overthinking it mum!” and I’m glad she does because it helps me realise what I’m doing.😊

The trouble with overthinking is it takes us places we really didn’t need to go, where we weren’t supposed to go! For some reason we think we know what other people are thinking about us, when they’re probably not even thinking about us in the first place!😊

God reminds us to cast all our cares on Him, not to lean on our own understanding, not try to work everything out in advance. At the end of the day we can’t do anything about other people’s reactions or actions and they are God’s responsibility not ours.

Then there are the times when we overthink and try to do what only God can do and it’s so freeing to know God actually wants us to take our hands off and let Him do things His way without our so called ‘help’!😊

God has promised us grace for each day, for every situation. Maybe right now you ‘think’ you need to be involved or ‘think’ you should be helping in some way, but God will let us know if He wants us to do something and if He doesn’t then we can mind our own business because we probably all have enough things in our own lives to handle anyway!😊

So next time you catch yourself overthinking what you said and did, or what they said and did or what might or might not happen, or what you should be doing, or not doing, just take a breath and stop for a minute to remember we’re in God’s loving hands. Our God is merciful and if we’ll give it all to Him, He can sort everything out if we’ll only let Him!

So, maybe this is a good moment to commit our thoughts to the Lord and ask Him to help us stop overthinking everything, don’t you think!?😊 Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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