Weekend Speaker Redmond - Pastor Greg Rohlinger
Weekend Speaker Issaquah- Pastor Rusty Gerhart
Theme: I Can's Stop Worrying
Read: Matthew 6:26-27;
Think: Pastor Greg reminded us throughout his message this weekend to "look at the birds"! It's right from today’s verse… 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:26-27
One of my favorite authors, Max Lucado echoes so much of what we learned this weekend from Pastor Greg. Take a listen to him:
Let’s make a list—“The Advantages of Anxiety”
Let’s start our list with worry helps our health. Lose sleep and live longer. A nervous stomach is a happy stomach, isn’t it?
We can even plan days of worry.
Monday—stress over the economy
Tuesday—list the reasons we could be unemployed by year end
Let’s face it! Worry has no advantages. It ruins health, robs joy, and changes nothing! Our days stand no chance against the terrorists of the “Land of Anxiety.” But Christ offers a worry-bazooka.
Remember how he taught us to pray? “Give us this day our daily bread.” Worry doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength. Live one day at a time. Make it a day changer! God’s Word says: “He will take care of everything you need!” and it also says You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. Matthew 6:27
Anxiety is an expensive habit. Of course, it might be worth the cost if it worked. But it doesn’t. Our frets are futile. Worry has never brightened a day, solved a problem, or cured a disease.
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. Always. Trust in that!
Do: Stop where you are right now... and look out the window at the birds... If its late and there aren't any, use your imagination. As they swoop and sing, call and glide through the air, enjoy the serenity of just observing. Now let the truth of today's reading sink into your heart. YOU are valuable to the Father... He'll take care of you.
Pray: God I worry and fret and all the while it reveals my lack of faith in you. Today I turn from that and ask your forgiveness. Show me how to trust you, to know your heart for me and my situation. Thank you that you are my provider and that you love me, you see my need and you take care of me. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
The eDevotional is written each week by a team of volunteers from Timberlake Church.