Don’t Worry, Seek First

With keeping our hope in the LORD as our foundation of thought today, let’s think about what we can let go and add. I remember quite a few years ago during the lent season, a pastor asked for his congregation to not necessarily take something away, but to add something. Each year when lent begins, I am reminded of this request. I do this, but what I have learned over the years is that when I take something away it is more sustainable to discontinue permanently when I add something. Meaning, when we look at this scripture, we see how God requests that we don’t worry. He will fulfill our needs through the hope we have. He cloths us. He feeds us. He gives us something to drink. He even feeds the birds. Do we have such little faith that we can’t give something to Him? Give Him all of us by seeking first and letting go of our worry? This pandemic has left so much worry and grief, let’s today give all this worry to Him and seek first what He needs us to do in order to not take our worry back after the lent season is over.

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the sky; They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them…you of little faith… But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” -Matthew 6:25-34