Is
your heart full of worries about your health, finances, family or future? Even
when all is well, some people still worry because they have heard others say,
“You should worry when everything is peaceful because something is wrong when
the devil leaves you alone.” So they worry even when there is nothing to worry
about!
But
Jesus does not want you to worry about what you will eat or drink, or about
your body and what you will put on your back. He tells you not to worry about
your daily provisions because God, who is your heavenly Father, knows that you
need all these things and He wants to add these things to you (see Matthew
6:32–33).
God
is the same God who took care of the children of Israel in the wilderness, feeding
them with manna every day for 40 years (see Exodus 16)! Under His care, His
people had no lack. When the people wanted meat for dinner, He simply rained
quails on them (see Numbers 11:31–32). The children of Israel only had to pick
them up. If they had gone to look for meat themselves, they probably would not
have found any in the desert.
The
problem with us today is that we think that we must do something to help
ourselves. Some of us may even think that it is easy for Jesus to say, “Don’t
worry. Take no thought for your life,” because He does not understand the
problems we face in life.
But the truth is that Jesus understands the problems we face in life. In fact, He faced what I would call the “final problem”—death. Death is the “final problem” because it puts an end to all our other problems. Jesus faced death at the cross, conquered it and rose from the dead. And because He conquered the problem of problems, we can trust Him when He tells us not to worry! (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
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