They remind me that I'm supposed to be thinking beyond the next hour, the next day, the next week. I have to be thinking of next semester, next month, next year.
And yet, I must also remember that I need not be anxious. Trying to find the LORD's will must not overtake His desire for us to trust Him fully.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matthew 6:25-34 ESV).
My Savior finds value in me...so much so that He wants me to find my value completely in Him. What?! How radical is that? I need not strive to find my value in where I am, what I'm surrounded by, or even what I'm doing or have done. He wants to give me the comfort of knowing that I am cared for. He wants me to run to Him for that comfort.
So He puts me where I do not feel that comfort from anywhere else. I'm so thick headed that it takes despeate times and situations to make me flee to Him.
Father, as scary as it is, continue to put me here where I can go nowhere but to You.
And yet, I must also remember that I need not be anxious. Trying to find the LORD's will must not overtake His desire for us to trust Him fully.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matthew 6:25-34 ESV).
My Savior finds value in me...so much so that He wants me to find my value completely in Him. What?! How radical is that? I need not strive to find my value in where I am, what I'm surrounded by, or even what I'm doing or have done. He wants to give me the comfort of knowing that I am cared for. He wants me to run to Him for that comfort.
So He puts me where I do not feel that comfort from anywhere else. I'm so thick headed that it takes despeate times and situations to make me flee to Him.
Father, as scary as it is, continue to put me here where I can go nowhere but to You.
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