I tend to be a worrier by nature. It’s something I must constantly work to overcome. As I reflect on this past week, I must confess that I allowed worry to get the best of me.
I do know better, but control freak that I am, it’s a struggle to leave things in God’s hands when I can’t see the end in sight. When I step back I realize – who am I to think I can take control anyway? How easily I forget that every breath of air in my lungs and every beat of my heart is a result of God’s goodness. The earth is filled with evidence of mans limitations. Ruins of ancient kingdoms. Accounts of natural disasters. The intricacy and perfect balance of the solar system. How easily I forget my place.
So for today’s reflection, I am revisiting some Truths about worry.
Matthew 6:25-34 – the words of Christ
“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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 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, O you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
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