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Enemies of rest: Anxiety - Matthew 6:25-34
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• Why?
• What if?
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Why am I preaching this
sermon?
This is not just an
enemy of my rest – it is a
convicted thief of my rest…
•
Take last Sunday morning for example… in my mind… “What if
someone doesn’t like or objects to something written in the Annual
Vision Reports?
What if something goes wrong with set-up before
the service and people assume it’s because of something I’ve done or
not done…maybe I should go down there at 10am again to make sure
all runs smoothly?
What happens if any of that leads to someone
creating another pastoral crisis in the church that I just don’t have
the energy or capacity to cope or deal with or just to get through?
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What happens if/when people find out that I’m not that good a
Principal or teacher – I’m just doing my best with what I’ve got?
What happens when the church realise I am just a sinner who makes
mistakes, gets it wrong and needs grace?
My day in the week of rest
is stolen… And I recognise that I am fortunate because my worries
and anxiety are not about the things which keep me alive like food,
clothes and shelter – my anxiety comes from what others think
about me and how they react to and depend on me.
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Maybe I am the right person to preach this sermon because I need
to keep going, I need God to keep growing me.
Everyday, every hour
I need to keep on learning how to do Jesus’ – “do not worry about
your life…”
Enemies of rest: Anxiety - Matthew 6:25-34
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Matthew 6:25-34
“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?
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?
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the flowers of the
field grow.
They do not labour or spin.
Enemies of rest: Anxiety - Matthew 6:25-
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Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was 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—you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying,
‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we
wear?’
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly
Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34 NIV
Enemies of rest: Anxiety - Matthew 6:2
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• Realism - each day has enough trouble
of its own!
Ain't that the truth!
Psalm 142: 1&2 “With my voice I cry out to the Lord;
with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
I pour out my complaint before him;
I tell my trouble before him.”
Enemies of rest: Anxiety - Matthew 6:25-34
• Interestingly, Jesus doesn’t say “don’t worry at all”, he says don’t worry
about tomorrow.
• We spend a lot of time and mind-capacity and spirit-capacity worrying
about things that never happen – I think that life in general and the
pandemic specifically has given more and more of us (CLICK) “Caterpillar
perspective” more and more of the time.
• Caterpillars are slower and more vulnerable to attack – they are tastier for
their predators – they are just concerned about themselves and getting
their next meal… and…hiding.
When anxiety starts or continues to rule in
our lives we become slower, more vulnerable, it feels like everyone’s a
predator ready to attack, food doesn’t taste as good and we just feel like
hiding… oh yes… (CLICK) and some of us can become quite thorny, sharp
and angry towards those we love when we are anxious.
• Do you recognise yourself??
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• Realism - each day has enough trouble
of its own!
Ain't that the truth!
Psalm 88: 3-9, 13-14
“For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.
I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left.
They have left me among the dead, and I lie like a corpse in a grave.
I am forgotten, cut off from your care.
You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.
Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me.
You have driven my friends away by making me repulsive to them.
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