I don’t know what is going on in your life right now, or what will happen to you in the future, but regardless, I am convinced that the best practical life advice I can give you is something that Jesus said that sounds very impractical. Matthew 6:25-33 (NIV) 25Therefore 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? 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 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies 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, O 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. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Jesus teaches a very simple 2-part life mantra: 1. Don’t worry. 2. Do, always, keep God’s kingdom your top priority. But for your entire life, everything will tell you to reverse those. Everything will tempt you to put the kingdom second, if there is anything left over because life will offer you an endless supply of worries about your job, your kids, debts, aging parents, diseases and disabilities, and the bills never stop coming. Who has time to look at flowers and little birdies? But Jesus knows all about your worries and responsibilities. In fact he knows every last thing that will happen in your life – he is after all God - and he still wants you to consider the birds and the flowers. Why? Because Jesus is pointing to amazing things being accomplished in lilies and sparrows that we normally never notice because we’re so tied up with our worries. Jesus says if you will just be still long enough to listen, creation is practically shouting something important about God that you need to know: somehow, with God. Somehow, those birds never worry and yet survive. Somehow, these amazing works of art blossom in fields untouched by human hands. Everything they need comes from God. Everything we need comes from the same God. God can when we can’t. God is proven when we are powerless. I hope that where ever you are in life, and whatever you are struggling with right now, I hope that this week you will make time to be still and know God. Look around you. Listen. Listen to how all creation is shouting to you that God is good and God is trustworthy and God will provide. Somehow, with God. -from Scott Franks
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:40:17 +0000
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