Overcome your worries and anxiety |
Many of us are anxious. We worry about making it to work on time, missing a phone call, or what our doctor may say about our latest tests. Reading the Bible can help us find peace and encourage us to give our worries to God.
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The Cure for Anxiety "Therefore I tell you: Don't worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky: They don't sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they? Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don't labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. If that's how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won't he do much more for you—you of little faith? So don't worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. |
CSB Tony Evans Study Bible |
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| Seeking First the Kingdom God's kingdom is lived out from the perspective of heaven, not earth. That's why Jesus said, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you" (Matt 6:33). Far too many Christians, though, think they can mix a little of God with a lot of the world. |
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They're willing to follow several isolated fragments of what they find in God's Word—going to church for fellowship, giving money when it's convenient, not stealing, and so on—but they're not willing to submit to God's comprehensive plan and purpose for their lives. They're not willing to be part of His kingdom agenda. That's a big problem. Because when you bring the world into the Word, you're asking God, the King, to bless something that's contrary to His kingdom. He won't do that. In the end, your efforts to keep hold of only a little piece of God actually prevent you from experiencing any part of God because you can't operate in two kingdoms at once. If you lose sight of the kingdom, God's perspective gets lost and you start focusing on the tangible and temporal things in life. When that happens, your judgment begins to be skewed and your decisions become shortsighted. Rather than living out your destiny and purpose, you may end up with wasted time, effort, energy, and emotions. But when God's kingdom is prioritized, you get to see heaven both rule and overrule in your life. You will witness God trump circumstances and people that you thought had the last word because only God has the last word. You'll get to experience Him at a whole new level as you experience Him as King. |
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