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Me
Worry?
I can just throw the word up there and some of you have an instant reaction.
Tightness in the chest.
Sweats.
Uncontrolled thoughts.
Fidgeting.
So here is a picture of a kitty to help.
My grandma really knew how to worry.
When I was a little kid all of the cousins decided to ride our bikes from Glendale to the big city of Chilliwack.
About 10 Kilometers.
We were traveling to the dairy queen to top off our tanks.
When we got there my brother called grandma to say everything was OK.
Apparently he did not let her know where were going and it sounded like a panicked conversation on the other end.
What I didn’t hear until my brother hung up the phone was my grandma saying, “What if you get hit by a car!!!” To which my brother replied, “We’ll call you.”
And grandma in her great love for her grand kids said, “But you’ll be dead!”
What I didn’t realize was the hold that anxiety had on my family.
I was an anxious child.
When I was six or seven migraines plagued my existence.
I remember going in for tests and CT scans to see if something was wrong.
Life went by pretty good, school marriage kids.
Then through a series of events I started to shut down and anxiety became a very real daily thing in my life.
I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and was put on medication, which I am still on today.
Now my life is a constant battle of evaluating what are the chemical things going on in my body that are creating the tension and what are the social and spiritual things that lead me into the sin of worry.
Today we aren’t talking about the issue of anxiety from a chemical or physiological standpoint because that is a very real thing and can require treatment to manage the symptoms along with behavior modification.
What we are talking about today is the sin of worry and where it comes from.
Some of the steps to conquering worry will look similar, but there are also significant differences which we won’t get into today.
In our Q and A Series September 28, 2014, We explored a biblical response to mental illness so if you are interested in that please check it out from the teaching archives on the website.
Maybe for you the thought of school starting in the next few weeks is freaking you out.
Maybe you aren’t sure where the next pay check is going to come from and you don’t know what to do.
Maybe you have people coming to visit and you know that they will say careless words when they see you and it is turning your stomach in knots.
Whatever it may be there are times in our life where we have worried.
And sometimes that worry started to impact how we lived, the decisions we made, our thoughts, and even our health.
Maybe for you the thought of school starting in the next few weeks freaks you out
Even though this worry thing seems like a problem for today.
Apparently it was quiet prevalent in the time of Jesus.
You see worry wasn’t really the core issue, it was a symptom of something greater.
We can get to the heart of our worry by asking the question, “Who do I trust?”
Jesus was in the midst of his followers and a larger group of people.
Actually it was a crowd of thousands.
He was teaching on why he had come and the hope the people needed to have in him and his Father when someone in the crowd shouts out.
When I was a kid my granpa passed away and there were 9 brothers and sisters, my aunts and uncles who all had to go into the house and disperse the assets.
There was tension.
In the end I got my grandpas old yellow baseball cap.
Kept it for years.
But when it comes to things like estates, it can be a challenging time for a family.
This was probably the younger brother because he didn’t have control of the money and from what Jesus says, he was concerned or worried for himself.
Luke
When I was a kid my granpa passed away and there were 9 brothers and sisters, my aunts and uncles who all had to go into the house and disperse the assets.
There was tension.
In the end I got my grandpas old yellow baseball cap.
Kept it for years.
But when it comes to things like estates, it can be a challenging time for a family.
This was probably the younger brother because he didn’t have control of the money and from what Jesus says, he was concerned or worried for himself.
So Jesus replies,
Luke 12:14-
The first verse flies in the face of our culture.
Of course the abundance of my possessions is what my life is.
Of course greed isn’t that bad if it lets me live comfortably.
Some of the people I admire the most are the ones who lose everything.
Shrug their shoulders and keep following God.
That wasn’t the case with this guy.
Jesus saw his heart.
His motives.
Jesus refuses to take a legal stand on the issue and instead turns it into a values, a moral discussion.
So Jesus shares this story about the rich man.
It is fairly straight forward.
What the world and many Christians would call good sense God uses fool.
Tonight your life will be demanded of you.
The verb their for demanded in its form here actually means to demand back.
God is saying, “I gave you life…now I am calling in that dept.
We’ll see what was done with what I gave you.”
My life is a gift.
Your life is a gift.
The fact that you can breath in and out, is a gift.
How would your life change if you started to think of it as a gift from God. Something he is lending you for a time and one day will call in that Life?
We all face death.
It is a reality.
Something that we cannot beat.
Our stuff here does not carry on into eternity.
Are my things my things, or do I hold everything I have with open palms recognizing that I’ve just been given management of them for a little while?
After this Jesus turns to his disciples, his closest friends and gets to the heart of the matter.
And it gets to the heart of what we need to know today.
God is Trustworthy
So Jesus says.
Luke 12:
Luke 12:22-
Is life more than what I have?
What is this worry anyway.
It just seems like people trying to do the best they can in life and take care of themselves and their family.
But worry is way more than that.
Worry is what takes my focus off of God and the fact that I can trust him.
— “everything that does not come from faith is sin.”
Worry in essence is a lack of faith.
My grandma, who loved Jesus, and was a huge example to us of true faith still had her struggles with worry.
And sometimes she would go to the absolute worst case scenario for what could happen to us.
Sydney sleep walking -40 (300).
Life became one of barricading the doors at night and setting up sound alarms in case she decided to do something like that again.
Worry became a nightly exercise assuming the worst of what could happen.
But at some point we realized that we had to trust God with all of our children’s lives.
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