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Matthew 6:31-33

New International Version

                                                                                                  

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.

What things do you find yourself worring or being anxious about.  Reading today's verses you wouldn't think that what we eat or drink would be that big of a deal,  But how many times in your life, especially when you were a teenager, have you stood in front of a refrigerator or cabinet full of food and said there's nothing to eat. There is plenty to eat but we don't like the opitons. But if we face bigger decisions in life and don't have answers for them how much more will we be anxious.

Worrying or fretting take a lof of our time and what does it ever solve, what good comes of it.  Corriee ten Boom writes, "Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength—carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

Are you carrying 2 or more days load today? Don't spend, don't waste your strength on it,  God knows what you need.  He's provided for you all your life and He will provide for you today. Don't let the clouds of worry and doubt cast a shadow over your day, behind those clouds are skies of blue.

When God's people pray
And take the pains of earth
To the doors of heaven
When God's people pray
There is hope reborn
There is sin forgiven
And miracles you can't explain away
When God's people pray

Hopeless situation turns around
Dilemma passes by and by
Look, there's a never-ending field of blue
Past your clouded sky
He alone can know the need in me
Before a single word begins
The Holy Spirit intercedes for me
I will trust in Him
He will not turn away when His people pray.  (When God's People Pray - Wayne Watson)

Blessings,

Mike

Folllow the Verse of the Day blog at http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com

Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace.  NIV

Matthew 6:25-34

New International Version

Do Not Worry

25 "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 than food, and the body more 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 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers 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—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. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.