I read another post this morning with the theme of "Don't worry, be happy." Immediately, these verses came to mind. I felt the need to share these again with you.
Matthew 6:25-34 New King James Version (NKJV)
Do Not Worry
25 “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.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=NKJV
Though I thought the message was for the person I shared it with, looking for a message this morning (as I have a sick child this morning and cannot attend church), this was the first song to turn up...
"Consider the Lilies" presented by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
That's when I realized that the message is for me today as well... and I'm sharing it with you.
Our world today causes great amounts of worry and anxiety and sometimes we wonder how, on earth, we are ever going to get "there"- wherever "there" is for us. That's the time to stop and remember how much more precious we are to our Heavenly Father, than even the birds and flowers - and he cares for each one of them as well!
He encourages us every day to "don't worry, be happy.'
I leave this with you in Jesus' name. Amen.
Lori Aberle Hopkins – photographer at Viking Visual, author, student-of-the-world.
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