GodSprings - 06, June, 2017

What am I Worried About?

 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Matthew 6:31-32

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

Jesus Christ spoke realistically of our ambitions and aspirations. In doing so, He exhorted us to have a goal in life. Desiring our best, He designed for us the best goal.

The above verses are soothing words to read but difficult to put into practice. What was Jesus exactly intending when he said these words. I think Jesus was telling us not to let the provision for our temporal needs be the chief end of our life. We were created for something nobler and better than that.

In yet another instance Jesus says that “Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” What Jesus is trying to say is that His disciple is to hate, or in other words love less, even his/her own life. This is what Jesus Himself did.

Jesus’ food and drink consisted in doing His Father’s will. Even life itself, was nothing to Him, as he cheerfully laid it down for us. Jesus counted nothing that He had as being worth preserving. He surrendered all to God to be used for the good of His people.

We are not to make ourselves slaves to work and worry. We should not be one of those who are full of worry. One who rises up early, sits up late and eats the bread of carefulness and devote all their time to secular and secondary things. What Jesus is trying to tell us is not that we should have the mind of the idler sitting and doing nothing. But on the contrary, makes a valid point by saying that God should be the chief part of our time and not just clippings and ends of life.

Christ from the very first day when He had his disciples around Him, till the hour in which He was taken up from them, He had only one thing in His mind – finishing the work which God has given Him.

Let us pray – Dear Lord, help us to always remember the incredible promise you have made to care for us with greater concern that the flowers and the birds.