Anxiety! Not a word that brings joy and peace to our hearts, but it does seem to be a word that often tries to find a lodging place in our minds. Well, I have good news for you! Jesus has a wonderful cure for anxiety that He gives to us in His sermon on the mount in the 6th chapter of Matthew. Listen to His beautiful words:
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek): for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness: and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
Praise the Lord for these wonderful promises of our Heavenly Father's care and provision! I like these words from Oswald Chambers:
"Showing no concern for the uncertainties that lie ahead is the secret of walking with Jesus."
The songwriter said:
"All your anxiety -- All your care. Bring to the mercy seat -- Leave it there!
Never a burden He cannot bear -- Never a friend like Jesus!"
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