INTRODUCTION

Believers are commanded to “Be careful for nothing.” Contextually, the word careful means to be care full or full of cares. That being said, this is one of the most disobeyed commands in all of scripture. In Matthew 6:25Therefore 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?
See All..., the Lord warned His disciples against dwelling upon or worrying about what they would eat, or drink, or how they would be clothed. The Lord’s rebuke implies that not even the necessities of life should serve as a source of worry for God’s people. It is important to note that worry and faith are at opposite ends of the spectrum because they do not and cannot coexist within the believer’s life and walk. A believer who is “careful” for things cannot and will not simultaneously trust God’s faithful provision. When a believer worries rather than trusting in God’s provision and protection, the believer’s actions deem God incapable to accomplish the matter without the individual contributing his “carefulness.”

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For children): God made all things (John 1:3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
  See All...), owns all things (Psalm 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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  See All...b), and is more than able to give it to us (Ephesians 3:20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
  See All...). For instance, consider His care for His children when they were in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:15-16 [15] Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; [16] Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
  See All...; Deuteronomy 29:5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
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• (For everyone): Why is it a sin to worry? What message does our worry send to the Lord? What is an alternate plan for worry (Philippians 4:6
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• The absence of worry does not suggest the absence of effort on the part of man. It merely suggests a different foundation of hope. In whom does worry place its hope? In whom does faith place its hope?

PRAYER NEEDS

• Ask God to give you victory over the sin of being full of cares.
• Ask the Lord to show you when you are consumed by worry.

HYMN

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