Do Not Worry . . .

As we have been praying and thinking through our future, I (Lindsey) have often caught myself worrying about the future. Stumbling over thoughts like, “how will we ever raise more support? Or how do we know where God wants us to serve,” I find myself falling into the trap of worry. The reality is I am not trusting God with my future. So often I want to know what is going to happen and when it will happen – I want to be in control. God is daily bringing me to my knees as he shows me that He is God and I am not. He is the one who is in control and no matter how hard I try I will never have control. He longs for me to come to Him in my place of need.


This morning I was reading through Matthew 6 and once again found myself broken that I was worrying about my life. I also found peace in the promise that He knows my needs and will care for me. Jesus tells us to not worry about our lives. I often fall short and I need that reminder that He will provide for me in His way and timing. I pray that as you read through the passage below you to will find comfort and the courage to step out of the all too familiar trap of worrying about what is to come.


“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 important than food, and the body more important 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon 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, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat? 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 has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:25-34