Worry

Matthew 6: 25-30 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 even Solomon in all his splendor was not 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?

We all worry too much. I certainly include myself in that. I can't tell you how many hours of sleep I lost this summer because of the tree house. How silly is that? Why would anyone lose sleep over a tree house? Each of us has our own particular areas that we worry about for no good reason but we do. It is just like a phobia. Why would someone be afraid of a spider or a mouse who can basically do us no harm?

The bottom line as it states here is Faith. It is a question at least in part of Faith. It is lacking in some areas of our lives and where one person worries about one thing and someone else about another. They are both about Faith. When Peter as he walked out upon the water took his eyes off Jesus and began to sink, he lost his Faith because his focus was on the water and himself and no longer on Jesus.

We need to refocus ourselves back onto Jesus in times when we begin to worry. Most of the things we worry about are very unimportant and things we will not remember a year from now. Let us try to give our worries to him who promises to take them and to take care of our basic needs.

Hymn of the Day: "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus".