Jesus Said to Trust God's Provision Fearlessly
Daily Scripture
Matthew 6:25-27
25 “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are? 27 Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life?
Daily Reflection & Prayer
Today’s passage may feel radical at first, utterly against simple common sense. That must have been even more of a challenge for Jesus’ first hearers. Scholars Eugene Park and Joel Green noted: “Jesus’ audience would have been ordinary peasant people who had to worry about their next meal all the time, yet Jesus tells them not to worry about anything. He asks them instead to view the world with new eyes, in order to see all around them evidence of God’s care and provision.” *
- Worry usually focuses us either on the past (“I wish…”) or on the future (“What if…”). Jesus called us into the present—the only “time” we can directly affect and where we meet God. Practice not letting worries block your sense of God’s presence. Call it “meditating,” “centering prayer” or “going to your happy place”—whatever name works for you. The goal is learning to be with God anytime, day or night, in the present moment. Can you identify one simple practice—a breath prayer, a Bible verse, a physical action—that brings you back to God’s presence now?
- Jesus also made the practical point that worry seldom does any good (verse 27). In fact, worry often shortens life rather than extending it. Can you think of things you spent time and energy worrying about that never happened? Most of our worries never materialize. There’s a difference between prudent planning (“I should save for retirement”) and anxious rumination (“What if I never have enough?”). What are more effective, sustainable approaches to life’s challenges than worry?
Prayer
Lord Jesus, you modeled a life of peace and trust. Help me to keep learning how to live a life in which my energy can focus on your purposes rather than my fears. Amen.
GPS Insights
Brandon Gregory
Jennifer Creagar, who serves as the Community Assistance Coordination Director in Resurrection's Congregational Care Ministry, wrote today's Insights. She is married and loves spending time with her family, and she enjoys writing and photography.
There is a sign on my office bulletin board, and a copy of it is in a small frame on my nightstand:
Every morning when you wake,
ask God to get into your head
before you do.
A friend who knows me well sent this to me, and it was a message I needed to hear. Just like I need to hear Jesus asking, “Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life?” Add, “the lives of everyone you love,” or “bring peace and order to this chaotic world?” and you’ve got me. I can waste a lot of time trying to order the world in my mind, fix all the problems, and keep everyone I love safe and happy.
Then Jesus asks the question and I can see it another way. If I want peace and security, working myself up into full-blown anxiety is probably not the way to go. Following God’s train of thought, and real call on our lives is a whole lot more likely to bring peace and empower us to be God’s voice, hands, feet and loving arms in this broken world.
My little sign is so right. Instead of plotting, fuming, and visualizing things that may never happen, I can remember that God is always with me. I can let Jesus’ words guide me instead of scary and or infuriating things I read while scrolling aimlessly on Instagram.
I can pray and let God speak to me about things that are keeping me up at night. I can let the words of Jesus into my head, and take them to heart. Keep those words in my thoughts as I move through a world that is sometimes scary and always challenging.
I have a favorite prayer, the Celtic Caim Prayer. It is often used to pray for someone else, but you can use it to open up room in your mind for God to speak.
Circle me Lord,
Keep your comfort near and discouragement afar.
Keep peace within and turmoil out.
Keep hope withing and despair without
Keep peace within and anxiety without
Eternal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sheld us on every side.
Amen
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Scripture quotations are taken from The Common English Bible ©2011. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
References
* Eugene Eung-Chun Park and Joel B. Green, study note on Matthew 6:25-34 in The CEB Study Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013, p. 17 NT.
