Today I want to talk to you about one of the biggest mental health problems facing our world today.

And it's so big and it's so common that it's often overlooked or completely ignored.

In fact, according to the World Health Organization, Americans have a bigger problem with this issue than any other people in the world.

If you can imagine the most affluent society in the world is actually the most worry-filled society in the world.

So for those of you that are Americans, congratulations, we win.

I think that we'd rather not win at.

But many of us battle this chronic ongoing, we think it's natural ever-present sense of worry that's poisoning our peace and killing our joy and stunting our spiritual growth.

In fact, according to Barnard Research, about 60% of adults in the U.S. struggle with worry and stress daily.

Over half, in fact, if you're in the normal percentages, that means about half of you right now may find yourself struggling to focus on this message because you've got some weight, some burden, some concern, some body that you love, something that you want to change, and is front of mind are always present.

And we just live in a state of worry.

Why is it that so many of us find ourselves battling with worry?

I want to try to unpack it for you today and tell you at its core is because of our sin nature.

Because we're born as sinners, we tend to default toward fear instead of defaulting toward faith.

I can prove this to you.

If you're awake some night at 2am, I can almost promise you that you're not awake trying to figure out how to manage all the peace, enjoy in your life.

If you're awake at 2am, you're probably worried about your kids or some kind of health issue of you or somebody you love or job stress or how you're going to take care of your parents in the years to come or you're worried about the big things like terrorism and wars and race.

And racism and division and the price of eggs.

Have you seen the price of eggs lately, right?

We live in a culture where worry is almost just a commonly accepted part of life.

Now, we're doing a message series on mental health and we talked earlier about anxiety.

And so you might say now, Craig, why are we talking about worry when we've already talked about anxiety? You want to say the same things.

And what I want to say is they're actually related but they're not the same.

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