NO VALUE IN WORRY
Matthew 6:25-34
"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?
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.
Our grandson, Micah, found a passion for trapping when he was in his mid teens. He loved to trap through the ice on a small river, about 8 or 10 miles north of our house. The stretch of river where he would go was several miles from the nearest house and the road might have just a couple of vehicles on it all day long.
He would drive himself up the road, park the truck, then walk the ¼ mile back into the woods before getting on the ice. He would chop holes in the ice to set traps and check previous traps.
Every time he would go we would sit at home and worry continually until he came back again. It was never a relaxing time for Linda and myself. We knew that at his age he felt indestructible and took chances that I wouldn't take. He loved it and we hated it. The worry was painful for us. In the end all of our worry only robbed our joy, we gained nothing but problems.
What can we change by worrying? I just made myself miserable and didn't change a thing. Matthew wrote in verse 27, Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? The answer is clearly no. And we know that medical science now knows that it can actually take many days, months or even years away from the years God has planned for us.
Eventually, I joined Micah on his adventures and I would sometimes sit and pray while reclining against a log... I had a wonderful rest and a great time with God. It would be an hour or two later that Micah would show up with a beaver or muskrat or two in his trappers basket. He always had an awesome adventure and all my worry was for nothing at all.
We can choose to worry or not to worry... it's a choice and it's an ability to rely on the one that has everything under His control. Why would we choose to worry when we know that the same God that we are choosing not to trust, created the heavens and the earth? There is nothing impossible for our God... when we give it all over to Him in prayer He will answer. It's easier than you think. Give it up to Him, who truly has total control over all things.text here…..
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