Don't Worry

Webster's dictionary defines Worry as follows: give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles; to cause to feel Anxiety or concern; a state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems.

Webster defines anxiety as: a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Sometimes, life or situations have a way of presenting things to us that can cause us to worry. Paying the bills, having enough money to do this or that, waiting on a doctor's report etc. Matthew 6:25-34 beautifully addresses worry by telling us how we are to respond to it. It reads as follows:

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? 26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[a]? 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If 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? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

In this passage, Jesus teaches us that he truly cares and looks out for our best interest and concerns. We don't have to worry about what we will eat, drink, our bodies, money etc. because he will provide for us resulting in all of our needs being met. What I love is the fact of what verse 33 points out: "Seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

The all these things are our needs (food, cloths, etc) So if we seek the kingdom and God and his righteousness, these things will automatically be given to us. Thank you Jesus!