Matthew 6:24-34 (ESV)
24 “No one can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the
one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do
not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor
about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body
more than clothing?
Anxious means a divided or
distracted mind about things that might happen.
26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of
more value than they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add
a single hour to his span of life?
28 And why are you anxious about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Worry is an insult to God because
what it really says is that we don't really trust Him.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the
field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not
much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
We must live with confidence in
God's ability to take care of us.
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What
shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
The devil tries to get us to think
about the things that we can't control instead of the faithfulness of our
heavenly Father.
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these
things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
The problem with worry is that we
struggle with God over the control of our lives. We believe in ourselves
over God's ability to provide.
33 But seek first the kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
We must
approach life's problems from God's perspective and not ours.
34 “Therefore do not be
anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for
the day is its own trouble.
My problems in
my hands is just problems. My problems in God's hands produces miracles.
Darryl Craft, Whitesburg Baptist Church
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