25 e“Therefore I tell you, fdo not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more thanclothing? 26 gLook at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yetyour heavenly Father feeds them. hAre you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by beinganxious can add a single hour to his ispan of life?7 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, jevenSolomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of thefield, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, kO you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall wedrink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For lthe Gentiles seek after all these things, and myour heavenlyFather knows that you need them all. 33 But nseek first othe kingdom of God and his righteousness, pand all these things will be added to you.34 q“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficientfor the day is its own trouble.
Many times, in our lives we find ourselves not trusting God; this may be because of all the distractions we face daily, and we work so hard in our daily lives that many times we are worried for what tomorrow may bring. We are so busy that we don’t take a moment to just breath, we are always on the move, working, and never resting, working for a better life and we are so busy that we miss the opportunity to enjoy the moment.
Jesus’ trough his message reminds us to not worry, for us to know that He has everything under control. That He will take care of our every need, and all we must do is to put our trust in God.
Many times, I find myself willing to do the most difficult task instead of the easy one, in other words, we may find ourselves willing to do anything for God, except trust in him.
We tend to worry more than we should specially about those things that are out of our control, and we usually lose sleep thinking about them knowing that we can’t do anything to change the outcome, now if we add this to someone who is anxious it is a recipe for disaster. Anxiety is a horrible feeling and for those that suffer from it can be excruciating, because of the impotence one feels with it. One person describes Anxiety as follows:
“For me, anxiety feels as if the whole world is looking at me and waiting for me to make a mistake, as it waits in anticipation for my failure, so that it can laugh at me. This makes me feel so unsure of myself and I doubt that if I am doing the right thing.”
Do we suffer from anxiety because, my problems seem bigger than God? But the reality is that our God is greater that any problem we may face, maybe what is not allowing us to trust God fully is that we are so worried by what is in front on us, and we cannot see the answer, and that answer is God, for if he provides for the birds, wont he take care of you? Are you not more valuable than them. Our daily life may be full of noise and anxiety, but we can rest assure that God has everything in control, He is bigger than any problem we may face, and we can lay our anxiety on him, all we have to do is trust in Him.
Pastor Luis.