WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 4
“I
tell you not to worry about everyday life.” Mt 6:25 NLT
WORRY(2)
Jesus said, “Therefore I tell you, stop being
perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life” (v. 25 AMP). Now, the
Lord is not condemning you for having a legitimate concern about your
responsibilities. No, what He’s condemning is having a mindset that keeps
leaving Him out of the equation, or
turning Him only as a last resort. Destructive anxiety subtracts God from the
future, faces uncertainties with no faith, tallies up the challenges of today
and tomorrow, and forgets to include God’s promises and His faithfulness. Jesus
told His disciples, “I well you not to worry about everyday life—whether you
have enough.” Note the words “Whether you have enough.” That’s what we worry
about, isn’t it? Shortfalls, sickness, layoffs, economic downturns. Faced with
the feeding of five thousand people, the disciples and the same worry. Philip
did an audit: “Eight months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each one to
have a bit!” (Jn 6:7 NIV). How do you suppose Jesus felt in that moment?
Standing next to them was the solution for their problems, but they didn’t go
to Him until their back was to the wall and they had no answers. In their hands five loaves and two fishes
looked like nothing. Yet in His hands it was more than enough to feed the
multitude and solve their problem. As the bread kept multiplying, surely they
must have come to the point where they said, “Lord, why did I ever doubt you?”
Let your problems drive you into the arms of Jesus. And when you get there,
stay there!
Taken
from the Word for You Today Devotional
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