June 12-Don’t worry

Good Tuesday to you. I trust your week is off to a good start. Did you ever have so much to do in a day you thought it might just take two? Or even a week? I decided when I retired that I wasn’t going to overload myself anymore and that my life was going to be less complicated. Well, sometimes the things IN your life just simply take OVER your life and the complexities come whether you are ready or not. Have you ever been there? No matter how intentional you have been to keep it simple, all of a sudden it’s crazy and you can’t see how on earth you’ll ever get yourself organized again.


In the 6th chapter of Matthew, starting in vs. 19 we are told by Jesus himself not to store up treasures here, but to store them in heaven. Because where your treasure is, that’s where your heart will be—it will either be here with earthly things or centered on heavenly things. Then he tells us that our eyes are the light to the body, but if our eyes are diseased, then it’s darkness inside of us. He says it’s because “no man can serve two masters” that you will love one and hate the other. And plainly He says we can’t love God and be all consumed with money. 


He follows all that with this:  


““That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?...Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?...So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.””

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:25, 27, 31-34‬ ‭NLT‬‬


I’ve heard it said “Will it matter in 100 years?” Obviously, it’s rare that anything we might say or do will make any difference on this earth in 100 years. I think 99 percent of what we stress over probably won’t matter in 5 or 10 years—maybe not even next year or next week. But, the kingdom of God? Yeah, 100 years from now we won’t even be really started yet. We over worry and over stress about everyday life but Jesus tells us right here “this dominates the thoughts of unbelievers”and if we are claiming to be a believer obviously we can’t let it dominate ours. We need to decide today and truly almost every day, will we let the things that complicate and take over our lives dominate us or do we seek first the Kingdom? 


Dear Jesus thank you for being our God and our Savior and helping us to navigate through this life. We pray you would teach us to separate out the urgent from the truly important and the wisdom to concentrate of those things that have an eternal purpose. You are. Great God and we worship you. Amen and amen. 


Love you dear friend,

Pam






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