This week at LifePark we started a new series entitled “Overcoming adversity”, this is especially apropos considering our current situation with the coronavirus. Our passage was Jesus’ teaching on overcoming worry,

Matthew 6:25-34

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 than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 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? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If 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—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Here’s ten tweets from the sermon:

  1. If what you’re thinking is not correct, then what you’re feeling is not accurate. It’s not the event that causes us to worry, it’s our evaluation about the event.
  2. An abundance of possessions does not eliminate worry.
  3. Worry focuses more on the problem rather than on God.
  4. Put your cares in God’s hands. He’ll put His peace in your heart!
  5. You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
  6. Many people seek to make a living, but not a life. People discover too late that the most important things in life aren’t things.
  7. C.S. Lewis in The Joyful Christian writes, “Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in, aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
  8. Goethe taught us “Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.”
  9. God never asks us to bear tomorrows burdens with today’s grace!
  10. Jesus is the King and you’re a citizen of the kingdom. Live like a child of the king!
Rick

Associate Pastor – Discipleship.  The Church at LifePark

Professor of Discipleship, Columbia International University

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