When I stress out about a situation or spend too much senseless time worried about the outcome of a circumstance, isn't what I am doing advertising His unreliability? Aren't I saying I don't really believe what I claim to believe?
Matthew 6:31-33 says this, “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.”
When we stress, two things just might be happening. We are unnecessarily forecasting sorrow, and we are denying the Father a position of positive influencing power in our life.
We are publicly advertising our “little faith” (found all throughout the Gospels) and His unreliability.
And when we focus on worry and give stress a place of leverage above trust and hope, it causes us to become insensitive of present blessings, cynical of future blessings, it makes us incapable of our calling, it weakens our sense of His abiding presence, and it creates a depressing environment that affects everyone around us.
Jesus connects worry and stress with unbelief. And He offers us a positive alternative: to be single-minded in our commitment to God. The answer is seeking HIS Kingdom above all else by the way we live - desiring righteousness and making our devotion to Him the chief goal of our life.
It's worth considering...
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