Worry or Trust God

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

WORRY OR TRUST GOD

Matt 6:25-27

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

NIV

These words are on the heal of not serving two masters. That we can only serve one and it will be either God or money. Jesus intends for us to choose God and thus he now tells us that because we choose to serve God that we need not worry about our lives. This implies that if we had chosen to serve money, we would have to worry about our lives and about what we will eat or drink or about what we would wear. However, we do not need to worry for we choose to serve the living God and He holds us in great worth for he created us to be in His image. Just to consider that we are the image of God is quite awesome. It is sort of a mystery as to how that image appears. Does God have a human-like form, or are we made in a three-in-one image? We do have a soul, a spirit, and a body. The soul would relate to our mind, the spirit would relate to who we are, and of course, the body houses us. It is rather confusing to separate the soul and spirit so that may not be an accurate three in one and therefore it could be in some other way that we do not understand. However, the fact remains God made us in His image. Still, it is recorded that God said, “Let us make man in our image”. This is why in some way we are three in one, and that goes directly to the fact that he will always see us as having great worth. He will take care of us. He will see to it that we do not need to worry about even the basic needs of life, food, drink, and clothes. Once again, it is reasonable that we should work for God has told us to. But we are not to put our trust in the ways of the world but in Him. Once again, we cannot just sit back by the mailbox and wait for God to deliver all our food, drink, and clothes. We are not to rely on the world, which implies mankind to provide for us, that would mean we would need to worry all the time if they are always going to be reliable. However, God is always going to be there for us and as we put our trust in him, he will make sure we are cared for. On a personal note, every means of my income has been at by the direction of God. He has led me every time to where I would work, either for a company or being self-employed. Not once have I had to worry about where I would have enough money to buy the needs of life. When I tried to worry, God showed me how not to, that he would take care of the situation. I am wealthy by the world’s standard, but certainly not by my culture’s standard. Still, God wants us to trust him for every aspect of our lives. We cannot departmentalize our lives, living a portion of it by the ways of the world and setting a portion of our lives apart for God. How can we worry about our lives, and trust God at the same time? That would be an oxymoron. Trust God and worry. It must be an either/or and not a both. Worry or trust God.