I often torture my thoughts with countless “what ifs” that go through my head. I am one that will overthink anything and everything. I will rehearse conversations in my head which may or may not happen. It’s a curse.
The what ifs can ruin your peace. I pray but then my mind still asks the what if question.
What if God doesn’t answer my prayer?
What if it gets worse instead of getting better?
I spend way too much time trying to figure everything out. It stresses me out. I guess you could say that I stress myself out.
I have a lot of what ifs going through my head right now in my life. The worst case scenarios are the what ifs that cloud my mind. My world is chaotic because I ultimately know that I have absolutely no control over what happens.
I’m sure that I irritate God with my overthinking and attempts to figure things out with my what ifs. I admit that I have a problem. I need help. I need to get better at just letting go and accept whatever happens. It’s hard for me to do that.
There is a Bible verse that tells us to “cast your cares” but I don’t really know how to do that. I haven’t put that into much practice. How can I just simply let my what ifs go and accept what happens? God is in control regardless of my attempts to overthink it.
My soul needs rest. I can’t carry all of this on my shoulders right now. I have to let it go. There is no way I can be prepared for every scenario in my life. I need only to live right now and deal with the now and not think about what may happen later.
The act of casting our cares means that we have to intentionally transfer the responsibility of our what ifs on Christ through prayer and meditation. We have to allow ourselves to release these things and stop dwelling on them. Doing this is an active decision on our part. If you are like me you may try and fail but the important thing is to keep trying and practice letting go.
I don’t like feeling out of control and worried about what might happen. If I don’t learn to handle this better I am going to burn out and be a total wreck. I don’t need to wait until that happens to decide that I need to do something about it.
So if you are an overthinker like me, join me in the practice of casting our cares instead of trying to keep them on ourselves.
