Matt 6:25-27
“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?
“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?
“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature??
At the moment my 3- year old son is going through a funny phase with his favourite foods, where he hasn’t realised that I can provide him with more of this food if something goes wrong.
I can give my toddler son an ice cream cone or a bit of chocolate as a treat. He goes outside to savour his treat when all of a sudden we will hear a deafening scream followed by tears, screams and sobbing. My son has dropped his ice cream/chocolate and our ever entrepreneural family dog has scored big time.
We rush to our son. We calm him down. We tell him there is more ice cream/chocolate available so that he stops crying – Only he doesn’t stop, he gets worked up even more. We run to the fridge grab another ice cream and put it in his hand – Only then does he begins to calm down. There have been times when we haven’t been as fortunate – There were no more ice creams/chocolate in the fridge to give him. So I have had to try to make him understand I will be going to the shop later on and I can buy and even bigger ice cream so he can can stop crying…….but he doesn’t.
All his mind understands is that he wants an ice cream and he wants it now. He does not have the maturity or patience to understand that if he has lost his ice cream I will replace it as soon as possible because I’m a cool Dad and that’s what cool Dads do - He does not have the ice cream in his hand so he screams.
As he gets older he will realise that I could walk into any shop and buy every ice cream available for him if I wanted to. There is no need to cry, scream or worry about where the next ice cream will come from.He just needs to chill out and know his Dad is cool.
Sometimes we can get ourselves into all sorts of states by worrying, and being anxious about money, bills, food and clothing etc. Jesus said worrying doesn’t add anything to your stature. If God is your father – Understand that He is a good father who will provide for all your needs. You might be crying out in desperation to God with tears “GOD WHERE ARE YOU!” And all the time God has just gone to the fridge to get you another ice cream!
Maybe all you understand is that you want a new house/car/cash/holiday and you want it now – God’s bringing all that in good timing so don’t stress about it. The Bible says it is God who gives the power to create wealth – so why do we get stressed about about money.
Worry is a waste of time – Instead we just need to relax and know that our Spiritual Father is the coolest Dad of all.
