Do Not Worry

I've mentioned in previous posts my struggle with worry. Recently my worry has been focused on health issues first with Landon and now with myself. There is one area of worry that continues to haunt me since becoming a stay at home mom--money. As we all know, living off one income is extremely difficult. While it is something that is very important to our family and we know that is where God wants us to be, it is still very challenging to trust that our finances will work out. All of this has been hitting me hard here lately as our medical debt rises over the past few weeks.

Thankfully, God's word continues to remind me of what my attitude and mindset should be. God promises to provide, but there is a condition. I overlooked part of this for a long time, until I read the passage in context. There are several verses here, but please read it because I know it will be a blessing to you:

"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

Notice that Jesus promises that if we seek first the kingdom of God, He will provide our clothes, food, drink, etc. If we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and doing His will, everything we need will be provided for us.

I must confess that since I began staying home, God has continued to provide for us and bless us abundantly. As we struggled with this decision while I was pregnant, we would look at our budget and just think there was no way possible to do it. Thankfully we serve the God of the impossible!