Thursday, September 22, 2022

Worry Less, Part Deux

Oh, the immigrants! Oh the Supreme Court! Oh the economy! Oh the democrats! Oh the republicans!

Oh this, Oh that, Oh my!!!

Friends. We have a choice. What will we focus on? If you want to worry, go for it, but it is a waste of your life. Remember the words of Jesus:

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

If Christ followers would be such, they must follow Jesus.  His words on worry are clear and simple.  Begin by making a decision to stop worrying.  More tomorrow.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.

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