Matthew 6:25 “don’t worry about your life”
“Don’t take the pressure of your provision upon
yourself. It is not only wrong to worry,
it is unbelief; worry means we do not believe that God can look after the
practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but the details that
worry us. […] We say, “I will not trust when I cannot see” – and that is where
unbelief begins. The only cure to unbelief
is obedience to the Spirit.” CHAMBERS
If you were to list your, let’s call them
“concerns”, what would be at the top.
How long would your list be? Now
ask yourself … do these concerns have to do with wants or needs. We all, every one of us, have issues in our
lives. That is not the point. The point is, are you trusting yourself or
are you trusting God. Many if not most
of the problems we face are beyond our ability to resolve them. Some we have brought on ourselves .. some are
just part of living in a fallen world.
We just can’t see how those concerns possibly can be resolved … and that
is when our heart rate goes up and our hands get sweaty. Many times, we have put ourselves in that
situation … we have done something and then have sought God’s blessing .. that
is backwards my friend. We have given in
to lust … not necessarily sexual lust …
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John 2:15-16 “Do not love the world or the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all
that is in the world—the lust of the
flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but
is of the world.” Those were the things
that Jesus was tempted with in the desert.
That is what we are tempted with when we give in to our impulse .. impulse
= temptation … It can be a relationship … or a purchase … whatever, you see it
.. you want it … you take it … you regret it.
Do you remember how Jesus responded to the temptation? He said to the
Devil, “It is written … “ He responded
with the Word of God. And what is the
Word? The sword of the Spirit …
In Galatians
5:16-17, Paul wrote … “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do
not do the things that you wish.”
You can cut the list of concerns way down by
trusting God, recognizing temptation …
and then dealing with it before it leads you to sin. You can’t do that on your own … it requires
faith and it requires that you put the Word of God in you. Then as Joshua
1:8 says, you will be successful .. maybe not rich … and the concerns list
… well just hand it over to Jesus.
Bondye Beni Ou (God
Bless You)
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