The waste that is worry….
Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Is life, your life more than stuff, things?
When you give your complete trust over to God for your life, then you will NOT, should NOT ………WORRY!
Because you are serving Him and Him alone, with your life and everything you have!
Your life is wondrously in His hands – released you could say – completely.
Your very existence and everything you need – It’s God’s responsibility now!
You’re His responsibility now!
That’s simply wonderful!!
To the smallest detail:
What you need to eat
What you need to drink
Even your clothes, that’s the detail He will now provide
Jesus now illustrates and gives examples, so we are clear what He is saying
26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? YES
The Christian should NOT worry! Nor be filled with anxiety!
Jesus is NOT saying we should not or cannot THINK about these things, like food or clothing.
He said DON’T WORRY about these things – don’t be obsessed about these things, don’t worry about these things – why – because worrying about these things doesn’t make any of these things better, in fact it only makes things worse!
Worry will not make your life longer
It will just make it MORE miserable!
See verse 27…Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
The Greek word used here for stature is hēlikia – meaning length or duration of life.
So, Jesus is saying how many of you, by worrying, can add any more time to your life here on earth?
Answer – no one!
In fact, worry can shorten your life or least make it harder.
Our Culture Today – Is obsessed with lengthening our life, eating right food, exercise, vitamin supplements.
Nothing wrong with taking good care of your body. I think about getting fit all the time!
There is a place for taking care of yourself physically but understand – YOU WILL NOT LENGTHEN YOUR LIFE.
You will live as long as God wants you to live.
You do not determine your date of birth nor do you determine you date of death.
But you have a lot to say and do about that little dash in the middle of those two dates!
Which is why Psalm 90 tells us…The days of our lives are seventy years;
10. And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
12. So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Number our days….means to take the measure of our days as compared with the work to be performed, with the provision to be laid up for eternity, with the preparation to be made for death., with the precaution to be taken against judgment.
In other words, the life, the days God has given you, He has given you for a godly purpose, that is, to do all that He has called you to do.
We are to live our life carefully and prayerfully, obediently and recognise anxiety and worry will not lengthen your life, your time here on earth.
They are not to have a part on our time here as we live for the Lord!