Life Lessons

Mathew 6:19 -34-  has always bothered me a little bit...Yes, they are great provision scriptures with lots of promise but NOBODY...really, NOBODY does what they say!!!  At least nobody I know!

•  ¹⁹"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
• ²⁵"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? ²⁶Look 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? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life^[b]?  
• ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If 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? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
• ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
• ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Seriously!  Who does any of those these days?  We do just the opposite!  We are so self focused and fearful of the future that OF COURSE we save!  IRAs, savings, "retirement plans", fret over the health of Social Security, "will it even be there when I need it???"  On and on and on...

But JESUS said... don't worry about it... He has us, why should we worry???  We have a choice, we can 'go in and take the land' of peace and joy, no worry or fear...or, we can be like the Isrealites and fear the giants and spend the rest of our lives living in that fear.

You know, we can either "believe and receive" ... or not.  I'm tired of people saying they are Christians (myself included) and living like pagans! (verse 32)  I am determining right now, during my God test, to BELIEVE THE BIBLE! and live like it!