We live in a society where people are consistently walking around worried and stressed about all kinds of things. We seem to just go right along with it in the church; we even begin to say that there is justifiable worry and stress. But is that what Christ tells us? In Matthew 6:25-27 Christ says “So I tell you, don’t worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food, drink, and clothes. Doesn’t life consist of more than food and clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t need to plant or harvest or put food in barns because your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not.” I have to say
it sounds like what Christ is saying here is don’t worry about your earthly
passions, don’t worry about money our about making sure that you are keeping up
with others. But isn’t that what we do?
We worry about all kinds of things, am I going to be able to pay this bill or
that bill? Do the clothe that I own look
as good as others? But God doesn’t want
us to worry about that. No, he wants us
to go to Him in prayer and trust that no matter what He is going to take care
of us.
Shouldn’t
we be worried about all this, If we aren’t who is going to worry about it? Francis Chan points out to us that, “worry
implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or
loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives. Stress says that
the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our
lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.” In James 4:13-17 tells us, “Look here, you people
who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there
a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what will happen tomorrow?
For your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s
gone. What you ought to say is, “If the
Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” Otherwise you will be boasting about your own
plans, and all such boasting is evil. Remember, it is sin to know what you
ought to do and then not do it.” We have
a God that has called us to be holy, to put our trust in Him. We continue to look at this world that is
around us, but God is calling us to look at His kingdom to live for Him not for
us. We are generally too busy looking
around at the world around us that we forget about Gods Kingdom.
In Matthew
14:22-33 we are told about a time where Christ came to the disciples while they
are in a boat during a storm. Christ
tells them don’t worry I have come.
Peter says if it you tell me to come to you and I will. So Christ tells to and Peter is walking on
water looking at Christ, then we read this; “But when he looked around at the
high waves, he was terrified and began to sink. “Save me, Lord!” he shouted. Instantly
Jesus reached out his hand and grabbed him. “You don’t have much faith,” Jesus
said. “Why did you doubt me?” And when they climbed back into the boat, the
wind stopped, then the disciples worshiped him. “You really are the Son of
God!” they exclaimed.” Two things I want
you to notice in this, first It says but when He took His eyes off of Him. How many times do we begin to worry because
we have stop looking to God for the answers or strength we need, that’s when
worry creeps into our lives, and we begin to lose faith in Christ. Second it Says they worshiped Him, we need to
begin to worship God all the time, not just on Sundays but all the time, if you
want to defeat worry and stress begin praising God in all things.
“Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians
4:4)
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