God Wants You Free From Worries!

Matthew 6:25
25Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what will you eat or what will you drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Is your heart full of worries about your health, finance, family, or future? Even when all is well, you still worry because you have heard people say, "You should worry when everything is peaceful because something is wrong when the devil leaves you alone." So you worry even when there is nothing to worry about!

But Jesus does not want you to worry about what you will eat or drink, or about your body and what you will put on your back. He tells you not to worry about your daily provisions because God, who is your heavenly Father, knows that you need all these things and He wants to add these things to you (Matthew 6:32-33).

God is the same God who took care of the children of Israel in the wilderness, feeding them with manna every day for 40 years! (Exodus 16). Under His care, His people had no lack. When the people wanted meat for dinner, God simply rained quails on them (Numbers 11:31-32). The children of Israel only had to pick them up. If they had gone to look for meat themselves, they may not have found any in the desert.

The problem with us is that we feel that we must do something to help ourselves. Some of us may think that it is easy for Jesus to say, "Don't worry. Take no thought for your life" because He does not know the problems we face in life.

But the truth is that Jesus knows the problems we face in life. In fact, He faced what I would call the "final problem" - death. Death is the "final problem" because it puts an end to all our other problems. Jesus faced death at the cross, conquered it and rose from the dead. And because He conquered the problem of problems, we ought to trust Him when He tells us, "Do not worry."