Hello Church,
School is about to begin. Anxiety is running high. I have it in my home and many of you have it in yours. Whether you are a student or staff member or parent, this is a month for anxiety. What do we do? Turn it over to God. You can't add a single hour to your life by worrying, but some argue that you can take away hours of your life by worrying. 'Chill out' is a phrase that I sometimes use, but it is a phrase that can come across stronger than I intend.
Don't misunderstand. I have concerns. But I would say that there is a difference between having concerns and spending energy worrying. .... I'll stop rambling here... and let the book of Matthew take over. He communicates it better than I can.....
Do Not Worry
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.
God is Good,
Pastor Joe
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