I think some Christians are embarrassed to go before the throne in heaven and say Lord God I’m having a real struggle here and I need your help I believe if you read the Psalms of the Old Testament you will see David pouring out his heart to God in every imaginable situation you can come up with and they aren’t uh veiled prayers they’re not nice prayers they’re gut level prayers Lord God I need help so let me just suggest to you you have a father in Heaven you have a family on Earth both of them were created to be helpful to you and don’t

try to do all this by yourself by worrying cuz it’s going to get you nowhere you’re in the family ask yourself who you are step up and be counted as a child of God so that’s Jesus Take on worry that’s given to us to help us understand it remember it’s inconsistent it’s irrational it’s ineffective it’s illogical and it’s irresponsible and that’s why Jesus says don’t do it we itself is a concern over the future worry is concern about something that we cannot do anything about that we cannot even be sure about one who

worries looks off into the future but the problem with the person who does that is twofold first of all the future is not here and secondly the future is not his no one but God knows its true shape and according to the Bible worry is concern over the unknown and uncontrollable future remember the day Jesus met with Mary and Martha if you want to know the poster child for worry in the New Testament it had to be Martha Jesus addressed her he said to her Martha Martha you are worried and troubled about many things

and that is what describes so many of God’s people today were worried and troubled about many things now let’s get it straight we live in a world that makes it very easy for us to worry can I get a witness all this stuff that’s going on in our country today and around the world the diseases the Wars all of it if we allow ourselves we can get consumed with worry about all of that but when worry takes over in our lives men and women as Christians it makes it very difficult for God’s word to have any impact on us in fact when Jesus was