Well, worry will keep you from being joyful, it hinders your walk with God, it displeases Him, it’ll strangle your ability to serve Him as you should, and so it’ll limit eternal reward. “This is just who I am, I’ve always been this way.” “I mean, shouldn’t we be responsible with the things in our life?” If any of that describes you, you need to take what you learn today and use it for God’s glory in your life. Or you make choices because you are anxious about something, like avoiding a social event. Poor performance at work because you fear failure or you can’t stop thinking about other things.ĥ. You’re getting into arguments with family because you’re so stressed out over … whatever.Ĥ. You’ve lost confidence in your abilities on the job at home or in schoolģ. Sleepless nights because you lay up thinking “what if.”Ģ. Well, how would you know if you are worrying?ġ. People get so in the habit of worry that if God saves them from drowning and put them on that white sandy beach with hot chocolate and a cookie they’d worry about catching cold! We worry about the great number of diseases, while doctors worry about the lack of remedies. The perfectionist is worked about not being accepted or worries about failing. How many business owners worry about pleasing their clients who do and don’t pay? And how many farmers worry about the weather? One wise sage said, “The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our…field and not theirs.” There is hope for you, comfort and peace is right around the corner and you won’t even need sapphire water and a beach chair to get it. 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will care for itself. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! 31 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Matthew 6:25–34 25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Jesus has a word for you … Matthew 6…Having warned us about materialism and living for stuff, Jesus’ turns to it’s evil twin sister: worry. You can’t relax! You can’t unwind, you’re stressed, you’re anxious, and you can’t stop … worrying! And now, you can’t stop thinking about work, your property, and your brother’s sister’s cousin bad relationships. In fact, you weren’t able to fall asleep last night because you were running around to get everything together, sprinting to stuff the bags, throwing all the stuff in the car, and you were worried about the plane ride and if everything was going to be okay while you were gone. You get out your backpack cooler beach chair and you stretch out on to that white sand and now you can finally begin to…. You step out onto the white sandy beach and take in the view: the shimmering sapphire water, the perfectly smooth granite boulders, palm-filled mountains, sun peering in through the cloudless skies, the gentle breeze wafting that aromatic sea air. You make the plans and pick the spot … on a private beach, for some well-deserved holidays from your hectic lifestyle. You’ve had a stressful summer, you desperately need to get away. INTRODUCTION What is the Meaning of Matthew 6.25-34 Part 1 “Jesus’ Counsel on Not Worrying” Know/trust God to get peace.
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