What is God calling you to do about today’s trouble?
Nov 2, 2016 7:23:55 GMT -5
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Post by Cindy on Nov 2, 2016 7:23:55 GMT -5
What is God calling you to do about today’s trouble? To help you answer that question, imagine two circles: one six feet in diameter and another six inches in diameter. What you need to do today is in the little six-inch circle. Whatever is in the larger six-foot circle you have to leave in God’s hands, because you can’t control or do anything about those worries.
In every area of your life where there is trouble, God is calling you to a small step of faith and love. He is not calling you to solve what is wrong. What God is calling you to do is always less than the bad things that might happen. Your troubles do not rest on your shoulders. You are living in a world where there is trouble, but you are in relationship with a God who is in charge of his world. He has a purpose for you in every situation where there is trouble: God is calling you to be constructive in a very small corner of his world. There is an ecology motto: “Think globally, act locally.” Apply this motto to your day-to-day life. Think globally by remembering every day that God is in charge of the world, and he is watching over his sheep. And then act locally by asking God each day to show you what small, constructive thing he is calling you to do.
““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? 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:25–34)
Heart of the matter: Daily reflections for changing hearts and lives.
In every area of your life where there is trouble, God is calling you to a small step of faith and love. He is not calling you to solve what is wrong. What God is calling you to do is always less than the bad things that might happen. Your troubles do not rest on your shoulders. You are living in a world where there is trouble, but you are in relationship with a God who is in charge of his world. He has a purpose for you in every situation where there is trouble: God is calling you to be constructive in a very small corner of his world. There is an ecology motto: “Think globally, act locally.” Apply this motto to your day-to-day life. Think globally by remembering every day that God is in charge of the world, and he is watching over his sheep. And then act locally by asking God each day to show you what small, constructive thing he is calling you to do.
““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? 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:25–34)
Heart of the matter: Daily reflections for changing hearts and lives.
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