Someone once told me worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair. You are keeping busy, but getting nowhere.

Being a Christian does not save us from the storms of life. Repeat after me, “Being a Christian does not save us from the storms of life.”

In fact Jesus directly addresses this in John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Peace in this life can be a rare commodity. Chasing after this, trying to find that. We often wear ourselves out seeking what the world tells us should be important in our lives. Stress and anxiety push away rest and contentment in Christ.

The world wants us to see wealth and possessions as an indicator of success in our life.

If we are not careful we fall into “possession obsession.” I fell face first into this snare. If you are new this blog, take some time to read the ten part Out Of Egypt series. It is a looking glass to what I was, and who I am now.

Jesus takes the conventional wisdom of the world and stuffs it on it’s head with this passage:

Mt 6:19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Mt 6:20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Mt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Mt 6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

Mt 6:23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Mt 6:24 “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.“

What I have learned in my walk with God is he only going to give me what I can handle and keep in proper perspective. He gives and He takes away.

There are times when I do fret somewhat, but when I read what Jesus has to say about worry; He helps me bring things back into His way of thinking. Once again, and always, Christ’s ways are opposite of the world.

Mt 6:25 “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?

Mt 6:26 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?

Mt 6:27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?

Mt 6:28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Mt 6:29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

Mt 6:30 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 clothe you, O you of little faith?

Mt 6:31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Mt 6:32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Mt 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Mt 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Get out of your rocking chair and walk, with Christ.

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