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Worry...
I am good at worry.
Things I have been known to worry about...
Getting to school on time
This is your 10 minute warning...
Returning library books before they are past due, or lost, and I have to pay a library fine
Forgetting to do homework on the weekend
I used to get sick on Sundays because I was worried I forgot to do some homework, or forgot something over the weekend that I needed to do for school
I worry about the state of our church
I worry about people in our community
I worry about losing my job and with that having no home to live in (or no job for that matter)
I worry about my kids health and safety
This week I worried about getting to and from Washington safely so I can come back home and preach a sermon on NOT WORRYING!
That’s ironic!!
We are good at worry!
What are some things we spend our time worrying about?
What do we get from worrying?
Ulcers, stress, bald heads, migraines, strokes,
Jesus says NOT to worry
How can we not worry...??
Is Jesus distracted form reality or living in a different universe?
Jesus gives US a new reality to reorient our priorities around
Well, the passage on worry begins with "therefore" in the Greek.
This means that what comes before leads into the do not worry...
So, what comes before?
Choices about priorities that will reorient our lives and perspectives
1- Storing up treasure on earth vs storing up treasure in heaven
2- An eye focused on worldly things
An eye focused on God's things
N.T. Wright on the eye
1- Keep our eyes fixed on God
2- Take caution in what we actually look at
3- Like headlights… are the leading you in the right direction and showing you what is ahead...
3-Serve God or serve money
It’s really a message about priorities...
Each choice has a clear negative and a clear positive.
What are some other choices we could add to the list to help prove the point?
Jesus highlights that it SHOULD be easy to make the right choice - but, why do we so often make the not so good choice?
The answer is BECAUSE OF OUR REVERSED PRIORITIES...
All 3 are a way of saying the same thing...
Seek God's Kingdom and priorities 1st or seek your kingdom and your priorities 1st
If God's Kingdom comes 1st = NO NEED TO WORRY
Think of the things we worry about...
Jobs, money, status, prestige, legacy, etc...
Those are the things that Jesus just told us we need to make different choices about.
Our focus should be on God, God’s Kingdom, what God is doing now, God’s right way of living that leads to justice, and what God is doing in us and through us.
Essentially, Jesus is saying “Worry about what God is worried about.”
This is not permission to not plan, or to be lazy...
There is plenty of scriptural advice for planning, being prudent, and working.
So, Jesus is NOT saying, "Be lazy, don't work, and let what will be, be."
No, there is planning, working and the like.
BUT, we are planning for God's glorification - not our own.
We are planning for the future - but we are NOT worried about it...
It means don't worry...
Don't worry about status.
Don't worry about things that often will distract us.
Focus on God and Gods priorities.
Worry, strive, that your priorities align with God's.
When you do this, all the other things fall into place...
When God is our focus, everything else falls into place.
Stories of God's care...
(Kansas City house, money coming in the mail, etc...)
Gods care for creation is an example
Birds of the air
Lilies of the field
God is concerned about the needs of creation
God is concerned about our needs too
Just as God has intimate knowledge of what birds and the rest of creation needs, God has intimate knowledge of what WE NEED as well
But, those things that often worry us should be PERIPHERAL
They SHOULD NOT be what our focus is on.
They should not be what is priority.
We worry when we make peripherals our priorities...
Jesus says to make priorities our priorities.
When we do that, the peripherals falls into place.
When our focus/concern is on the Kingdom Of God worry CAN/SHOULD subside.
Because what we treasure, who we serve, and what we value changes.
Worry is often a self-centered vice that comes from self-centered desires.
This is the new reality that Jesus calls us into - the reality of true, continual, Sabbath rest
This new way is RESTFUL.
Living sabbath where God provides for us as we focus our priorities on Him
So, let us live into the New Reality where our focus is on God and what God is doing.
And, as we do that, let us learn more about dependence upon God and more about what it means to not worry.
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