“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” – 1Peter 5:7
LIGHT FOR NOW: The believer must learn to ponder on God’s word and not ponder on worries.
Having seen in previous study that the word “cares” can be exchanged for the word “worry”, today we want to take a closer look at that term. WORRY – In simple terms, worry can be said to mean the exact opposite of what meditation is, that is, while to us as believers, meditation is to carefully and thoughtfully ponder on God’s word, often times accompanied with muttering these words to ourselves repeatedly to birth understanding and then consistent practice, worry is to exert this same effort and energy on life’s issues, problems, pressures and/or demands such as an impending quit notice or eviction from a rented apartment, a rejection at a job interview or a contract negotiation or even a termination on one’s employment, a doctor’s report that is synonymous to a doomsday pronouncement, creditors or loan sharks knocking and calling incessantly and the list goes on.
However, a careful consideration of this should inform us as well that worry or worrisome thoughts can be traced to the thoughts that we not only allow but spend quality time pondering on and muttering. As someone once said, “While we cannot determine or influence life’s pressures that come at us, we can actually determine and influence our own response or reaction to these pressures”. Also, another says “we cannot stop a bird from flying over our head but we can stop the bird from building a nest on our head”. Therefore, it is trite that the believer never loses sight of the fact that he is yet in charge of his mind or the thoughts that he allows to dominate his mind at every given point in time. Let’s hear Jesus on this; Matthew 6:25 “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. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” Here, we see Jesus’ readily refer to worry as “taking thought”. Therefore, to successfully deal with our cares and worries, will be to first of all deal with our thoughts and like Jesus teaches, refuse to take in or give thoughts or voice to our worries. Glory!
INSTRUCTION: Don’t give thoughts or voice to your worries.
CONFESSION: I refuse to ponder on and mutter out or give voice to my worries; I rather ponder, mutter and voice out God’s word, in Jesus name, Amen.
QUOTE: When you are giving voice to your worries, you are not giving voice to God’s word.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: MATTHEW CHAPTER 5; EVENING: MATTHEW CHAPTER 6
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 