i’m prone to worry and anxiety. i don’t really know why, i guess it is just a hurdle that i have to continuously overcome in life, part of me that i must constantly give to Christ. often i fail miserably at that, especially recently. today i was on a quest to be a bit more frugal in my errands, buying an in-home dry cleaning kit, grocery shopping at walmart (which was not as stressful as i had expected), etc. as i unloaded my cheap(er) groceries, i looked into the web of trees that surround my house. they are really quite amazing.
jumping from branch to branch, a little squirrel was doing whatever it is that squirrels do. when i saw him, i thought how nice it must be to just live without anxiety, fear, or worry. but then i stopped. perhaps it was God that stopped me. when i live with anxiety, fear, and worry, i am grossly missing out. missing out on God’s truth and provisions. He brought to my mind matthew 6. if God provides for an inconsequential (sorry, peta) creature like that, how much more does He provide for me? how much more does He care about that which He created in His own likeness?
today, i cast my anxieties on Him.
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 much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matthew 6:25-27
hi, my name is chad. welcome to my blog. it's nothing much; just a little bit about what i think, what i see and what i live. i am not trying to change the world (at least not today)...just sharing mine.
2 Comments
February 1, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Great post, Chad! Thanks for the reminder that God is in control. –David S
February 6, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hey Chad…just checking in on you. Love the post. Anxiety is something I struggle with as well. The verse I pray every day is 2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” That last part about the sound mind is the part I keep begging God for! “Lord, give us a ’sound mind’, especially in the times when we feel like we’re ‘losing our mind’!” Love you, Chad, and miss you lots”:)