Dont worry
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“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
What does God say about me? Am I more valuable than a bird?
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
God clearly made you more important than the Birds - You are in charge - What else does He say?
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
The Lord calls you wonderful !
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
So a lot has changed about you! Its gets better
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Jesus left you in charge of continuing His work!
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Lack of faith is the source of our worries - Jesus points out that its not an issue of wether or not God will provide but rather its an issue of wether or not you will believe that He will - and if I can have faith in Gods ability and desire to provide for me then I can trust that He will do it. And when I choose to trust that trust empowers me to let go of my worries
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Research show that we spend over two hours a day on average fretting about something . I would say most likely they are future events . How greatly could my life improve if instead I chose to spend that time with Jesus?
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.
Trust God with your tomorrows and be present with Him today
