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Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. |
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Matthew 6:25 |
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Does this mean we should live recklessly? No. The word ‘thought’ implies anxious thought or worry. The word ‘worry’ literally means ‘to strangle’. If you’re worried about what you’re wearing or eating — about what you have or don’t have materially — your personality will be tied in knots and strangled.
It doesn’t take much to strangle us. Even minor things worry us and sometimes destroy us. I read that it takes 60 trillion droplets of fog to cover 7 city blocks. 60 trillion droplets or 7 city blocks worth of fog can close down airports and tie up traffic. Yet if you condensed those 60 trillion fog droplets, you would end up with only half a glass of water.
That’s a perfect picture of what worry is all about. You begin with something little — only half a glass of water — but you start thinking about it and wrestling with it, wondering, ‘How is this going to work out? How am I going to do that?’ And pretty soon, you can’t see straight and your airport is shut down. You’re not hearing from the Lord and you’re not soaring with the Lord like you once did because you’re all fogged in.
That is why Jesus said, ‘Don’t take any anxious thought whatsoever.’ Don’t let worry strangle you. Don’t end up in a fog. |
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