Matthew 6:25-32
New International Version (NIV)
Do Not Worry
25 “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? 26 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? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 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? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
Peter Park began the Soul Talk series this Sunday, where speakers shares issues currently on their heart. Peter spoke of our misplaced faith and our tendency to fall into safe, predictable patterns in life. Though we often have dreams that we want to realize, we put them aside as the realities of the world creep in and we worry - of money, the future, careers, stability. The truth is that the world can never fully provide what we want - the more we try to control it the more bound we are by its fraudulent rules. Matthew 6:25 - 32 teaches us to live in freedom - to focus on things NOT of this world and to let go of our worries to our God, the one constant and guarantee. Do you have faith in the promises of a God who provides? Seek first the Kingdom of God.
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