What Worries Me
It would do us all well to ponder this question:
Luke 12:25 — And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
If we worry enough, will we live longer? Another way to translate this phrase above is: And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his stature. A cubit is about 18 inches. This is good rhetoric. It is as absurd to think that we can add a single hour to our life as it is to think that we can all somehow make ourselves grow a foot-and-a-half.
Luke 12:29-31 — And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
I love this passage. God knows what we need. So stop worrying. Seek the kingdom of God instead. It is amazing what that will do. Since being diagnosed with cancer, I have made it my goal to constantly seek after the kingdom of God. And I am consistently amazed at how little I worry now. I do not say this to boast in myself, but rather to boast in the Word of God. Seek the kingdom; stop worrying.
Amen!!!