Worry has more questions than answers, more work than energy, and thinks often about giving up. There’s not enough time, luck, credit, wisdom, or intelligence. We’re running out of everything it seems, and so we worry. But worry doesn’t work. You can dedicate a decade of anxious thoughts to the brevity of life, and not extend it by one minute. Worry accomplishes nothing.
God doesn’t condemn legitimate concern for responsibilities but rather the continuous mind-set that dismisses God’s presence. Destructive anxiety subtracts God from the future and tallies up the challenges of the day without entering God into the equation.
Jesus gives us this challenge: “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” (Matthew 6:32-33).
Struggles
Struggles: Yes we all go through them. Sometimes we know why and probably most often we don’t. James tells us to…
‘Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,’ James 1:2.
James tells us to consider it all joy when we go through them. But it can be a real struggle.
James continues on in verse three...
‘because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.’
Does that means so the at we can struggle better? Verse four gives us the answer.
‘Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.‘
This gives reason for the struggles, that we might grow from the experience. And then in verse twelve we get the results.
‘Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.’
Be blessed my friend!
[Message No: 7625]
God doesn’t condemn legitimate concern for responsibilities but rather the continuous mind-set that dismisses God’s presence. Destructive anxiety subtracts God from the future and tallies up the challenges of the day without entering God into the equation.
Jesus gives us this challenge: “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” (Matthew 6:32-33).
Struggles
Struggles: Yes we all go through them. Sometimes we know why and probably most often we don’t. James tells us to…
‘Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,’ James 1:2.
James tells us to consider it all joy when we go through them. But it can be a real struggle.
James continues on in verse three...
‘because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.’
Does that means so the at we can struggle better? Verse four gives us the answer.
‘Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.‘
This gives reason for the struggles, that we might grow from the experience. And then in verse twelve we get the results.
‘Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.’
Be blessed my friend!
[Message No: 7625]
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