~Day 7 of 30~

3 weeks and 2 days left...

Today was snagged quite a bit. I found myself thinking of things that I have no control over. Worrying about the future and what decisions I will make to affect it. I know why these things are happening... God is preparing me for great things. I can just know it. So, I have been pulled back to reality...

I kept thinking of Matthew 6:25-34 throughout the day...

"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.

Wow... I've just been put in my place! God never fails... It is my 'little faith' that hinders Him from working as He would. He has great blessings for me if only I will yield to Him and live for the riches that lasts forever. If I put God's will and righteousness first in my life, He will take care of everything else.

Three words point the way to victory over worry:

• Faith~ Trusting God to meet our needs;
• Father~ Knowing He cares for His children;
• First~ Putting God's will first in our lives so that He might be glorified.

If we have faith in our Father and put Him first, He will meet our needs.