praying to yourself

Jesus says not to worry.

Easy for Him to say.  He's God, right?  I might not worry either if I could multiply loaves and fishes. I'd settle for simply muiltiplying paychecks.

Jesus, however, is also fully human.  Jesus "did not consider equality with God something to be grasped... but made Himself nothing... in human likeness" (Philippians 2). 

With human likeness come limitations. Our limitations. Limitations are invitations to anxiety. Anxiety rushes in to that canyon of a gap between your best efforts and your happily ever after, where things are scary and lonely and out of control.

Throughout the gospels we see a Jesus to Whom we can relate. He gets angry and cleans out the temple courts.  He cries over the death of his friend. We see Jesus in the garden in such terrible pain that He is sweating blood.

Connect these dots. Jesus says not to worry, but it's clear He has plenty to worry about. He feels the same pressures we do. 

He knows what it is like to be surrounded by circumstances, repressed by rumors and stained by slander. 

Still, Jesus says "do not worry...".

Why not? 

Because worrying is praying to yourself.

Rather, Jesus says, we should place our hope in God. We should seek God's kingdom ahead of our solutions and His righteousness ahead of our rights (Matt. 6:25-34).

 

 

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[Jimmy Choo Chaussures]

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