Don't Worry About a Thing...
Suddenly, my head is spinning. How am I going to manage? How can I figure this out? What am I going to do. What am I going to have to let give in order to compensate for something else?
Constantly in the balancing act. Never giving equally. More attention here, less attention here. Problems erupting everywhere I look and I just can't manage it all.
But I don't have to manage it all.
Not alone, anyway.
"At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was Your good pleasure.
All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:25-30
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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? Look 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon is all his splendor was dressed like on of these. If 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 clothes you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:25-34
Worrying is going to get me nowhere fast. Trying to take everything on my shoulders and trying to fix it all is just going to kill me. I can't do it. I'm not supposed to do it. Why am I trying? I have a God who loves me, who is standing there just waiting for me to give up so He can take over. My kids, He's capable. My schedule, He's capable. My health, He's capable. My marriage, He's capable. My finances, He's capable. My friendships, He's capable.....
Trying to do a lot less worrying and a lot more praising. Abiding. Delighting. Obeying.
Blank Check, right Lord?
Love, Candi
Constantly in the balancing act. Never giving equally. More attention here, less attention here. Problems erupting everywhere I look and I just can't manage it all.
But I don't have to manage it all.
Not alone, anyway.
"At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was Your good pleasure.
All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:25-30
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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? Look 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon is all his splendor was dressed like on of these. If 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 clothes you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:25-34
Worrying is going to get me nowhere fast. Trying to take everything on my shoulders and trying to fix it all is just going to kill me. I can't do it. I'm not supposed to do it. Why am I trying? I have a God who loves me, who is standing there just waiting for me to give up so He can take over. My kids, He's capable. My schedule, He's capable. My health, He's capable. My marriage, He's capable. My finances, He's capable. My friendships, He's capable.....
Trying to do a lot less worrying and a lot more praising. Abiding. Delighting. Obeying.
Blank Check, right Lord?
Love, Candi
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