Matthew 6 - 7.6.26

S - Matthew 6:25-27

“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.”

O - This is a tough one for me.  Jesus tells us not to worry about physical life, but when you worry, so much anxiety creeps in and fractures our ability to make good decisions and degrades faith.  Jesus tells us how God has already given us life and a physical body, and we can trust that He will take care of the smaller things.  In these scriptures, He explains the  irrationality of worry.  There are no positive results of worry.  No return on our investment.

A -  I am personally going to weigh the options on how this worry is going to cost me in regards to keeping faith and trading if for fruitless anxiety.

P -  Lord I pray that you intervene when I become anxious and I pray for your wisdom in all situations.  Please remind me how ineffective it makes us when we devote time to an unworthy cause.  I also pray for calm in the midst of the storm. Amen

- Brian Moen