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Biblical Reference: Matthew 6:34

Approximate Running Time: 5 minutes

Cast of Characters: 2 Either Sex

Synopsis

We all know people who believe that we as Christians need to be worried about things that are going on around us. Worried about the lost, worried about the church, worried about the way we look to the world, worried about the impression we are making on our friends, worried about how new Christians are goin to act, etc., etc.

While I believe that we ought to be concerned about these important things, we need not worry about them. The Bible is quite clear when it tells us that we are not to worry about things. We are to take one day at a time and trust the Lord to work the rest out.

In Don't Be Happy - Worry we meet a young lady named Beth who is part of a committee designed to instruct new members of the church, and those who become new Christians through the church, on how they should be acting in public. The committee shows those they are working with how to live a life that exhibits the proper amount of joy, which is little, and how to worry about the things, in their opinion, that a Christian should be worried about - which is just about everything.

Josh is a young man who has recently come to the Lord. Although he is a new Christian he has learned a lot from his time of personal Bible study and prayer. His perspective of exhibiting joy and worry is closer to the biblical model.

When Beth tracks down Josh to make him a mentee of the new committee Josh is reluctant to let her mentor him. Through his well thought through claim to be free of the committee he turns Beth around to look at the Word of God over the teachings of the committee. In the end Beth decides to trust God and learn what He has to say about exhibiting joy and worry. Josh heads out to find others on the committee to give them the same chance that he gave Beth.