"Do not worry about your life"

Check out these wise, instructive words from Jesus:

“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 more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 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, O you of little faith?

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:25-34)

Comprised in this passage, Jesus emphatically states not to worry three different times (verses 25, 31, and 34). In fact, Jesus’ perspective is that it is absolutely useless to worry. I love verse 27: “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” There’s no point in worrying. We don’t accomplish anything when we do so.

In my own life, I’ve learned that the things I’m tempted to worry about don’t even come to pass anyway. Don’t get me wrong: I’m as susceptible to worrying as anyone. Believe me I know the temptation to worry, and I can’t honestly claim that I never do so. But I’ve learned over and over again that it is so much better to simply put my trust in God rather than worry; I know that ultimately He will take care of me.

Kevin