I like to think I’m important. In fact even as I sit here, I write assuming that at somepoint, someone will read this blog. Most of the time my thoughts surround myself, or what others are thinking about me. I wonder what I should wear, who I should text, what I’m going to do this weeked, what I’m going to do with my life. In short I tend to worry. But why? Why worry?

We worry because we have no control. Somewhere deep inside, we all feel the sense that this life isn’t really ours to live, like maybe it doesn’t make sense to have control, to have it all figured out, and this freaks us out. So we externalize our fear into worry, because its the only way we feel safe. But the world is not safe, it has no guarantees and feels no special allegiance to our well being. Most days it seems like the world is against us, like we have to struggle just to make it through the day, but the TRUTH is… we don’t.

If no one has told you this yet, God exists, and more than that he loves you. He loves you so much that he’s taken control of your life for you, not in an overbearing power hungry way, but in the same way we look after those we love.  He made you to live an abundant life full of love, joy, peace, hope, and faith, words that often lose their meaning in our world.

So if there is a God who loves us, why are we so worried all the time? Beats me… but here’s what God says in response to our fears.

Do Not Worry

 25“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? 26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

 28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If 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?

31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I like to think that I’m important, but the only thing that makes me important is the fact that God loves me. So here’s the challenge, to me and to you, do not worry. God’s got us covered, and he even tells us how to go about not worrying. In verse 33 he says it plain and simple, “seek first the kingdom of God”.

Really is that it? Yes, its that simple.

Its that simple because if we spend our time actively seeking the kingdom of heaven, we find ourselves and our fears becoming less and less important, and that is a freeing thing.

With faith,

A. Perez

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