I was reading a favorite blog this morning about Nat and her husband being unable to sell their house -- which they dearly love -- that would allow them to relocate to a place with a job offer -- so her husband could practice law.
'Somehow despite my uncertainties the days have turned sunny and the air is soft and the lilacs have started blooming anyway. I really wonder about those lilacs. Don't they know? Don't they even understand how insecure tomorrow is? As if they have nothing better to do than turn green and bushy under the sun, unknown future or not?'
Life will go on even when we think our troubles are so big the world should just stop in its tracks and weep along with us. I'm glad this old world has a mind of its own and doesn't pay attention to anyone's troubles. It just keeps spinning along bringing joy and troubles and rainbows and rain. And I especially like that we get to choose whether to notice the flowers or weeds.
Matthew 6:25-34 quotes Jesus as saying:
ReplyDelete25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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 than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Note especially verses 28-30!
Thanks, Deb! More and more I am putting my life in His hands and my worries dissipate. The last verse is especially moving when it discourages us from compounding our troubles. It is in our natures to worry forward and inadvertently create an insurmountable obstacle in our spirit. n
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