Title Don't Worry (Luke 12:22-24)
Contents
The people of Jesus' day and those of us living today do not agree in many ways. Different cultures and different ways to enjoy and live. But if there's one thing that's consistent, I don't think it's a "worry" attacking lives. It will be no different for people in Bible times or for us living in modern times, living in the midst of an attack of anxiety. Many people spend their entire lives under the pressure of anxiety and oppression. As Jesus taught the crowd, "Why are you anxious?" "Couldn't you be concerned?" he asked. And he said, "Don't worry." Why did Jesus take the matter of anxiety so seriously? It's for good reason. Anxiety tends to dominate and control us. So, you will be obsessed with these for the rest of your life. That is why our Lord is interested in the issue of anxiety.
Why did the Lord tell us not to worry?
It is because worrying does not prevent what should be done or what should not be done. In other words, to worry is to labor in vain. If you look at people's concerns, 99% of them say they don't need to worry. The remaining 1% is also said to be uncertain. Anxiety is just such unnecessary self-sacrifice. It is worthless sacrifices that are not necessary. However, this wrong thought keeps getting stuck on its tail and develops only in that direction, and there is no way out of it. It is productive to think good thoughts in your anxious time, pray in your anxious time, and take action instead of worrying.
Why did the Lord tell us not to worry?
That's because the damage is too great to worry about.
The word translated worry means "to tear off", and the English word for worry (worry) comes from an ancient Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to choke, strangle." All I'm saying is that it's dangerous. Anxiety does a lot of damage. If we stop worrying, there will be no problem, but it is a problem because the consequences of worrying are huge. Worry is a deadly toxin that does not stop at mental problems, but causes our physical problems.
According to a famous doctor named Dr. W.C. Alvarez, clinical trials show that 80% of gastric diseases are neurogenic. Even 60% of leprosy is psychological, and even rheumatoid arthritis is psychological. According to a study report, out of 250 cancer patients admitted to the London Cancer Center, only 19 did not experience extreme mental confusion and stress before the onset of cancer. When we start to become anxious, everything is messed up.
A man by the name of William Ingye said, "Anxiety is interest paid before its due time on a complex matter." Anyone who has borrowed money knows well, but how much is the cost of paying interest? It is a story of interest that must be paid before the time is up.
Recent studies have shown that when a person is discouraged, anxious, or depressed, the immune system breaks down. So it is said that it is very easy to get sick. Our body has an autonomic nervous system, and when we worry or worry, some of those autonomic nerves destroy our heart, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, and each body organ. Anxiety and worry stimulate the nerves within us and destroy our own organs. That's what the sympathetic nerve is. When we worry, worry, anxiety, restlessness, or despair, we activate the sympathetic nervous system in us and destroy us.
In Proverbs, it is said, "A joy of the heart is good medicine, but a troubled spirit dries up the bones" (Proverbs 17:22).
A man went into the freezer. After a while he found that the door was closed. The door could not be opened from inside. I screamed, but it was after everyone else had left. There he was afraid. And it was very, very cold. Before he died, he wrote a letter to his beloved family. He said he would freeze to death here, and when others opened the door the next day, he was turned into a corpse.
People were surprised. Because the freezer had been unused for months. So it was a place with no electricity, so there was no difference from the outside temperature. What caused this person to die? It was just fear. Fear made him feel extremely cold and actually shut down all the organs of his body. Fear shuts down all human abilities, not just the immune system. The same goes for concerns.
Why did the Lord tell us not to worry?
Because it soon causes problems of faith.
In Matthew 6:28-30, we read, ?쏛nd why are you anxious about clothing? Consider how the lilies of the field grow, and they labor and do not drive themselves out. But I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was clothed with this. It is not like a single flower. If God cloths the grass of the field that is today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more must it be you? You of little faith."
Worry comes from having little faith, and it comes from unbelief. The greater the faith, the less anxiety, and the less faith, the greater the anxiety. Worry is ultimately the result of not being faithful to God. Anxiety involves distrust of God. Therefore, as believers, we must not indulge in anxiety. I hope you will firmly reject your concerns. When the devil comes and subtly favors us and subtly instills anxiety in us, he says firmly, "No. I refuse to be anxious. I am not concerned with anxiety. I will still trust in the God I trust today, tomorrow, too." wish. This is what faith is.
Today's Bible teaches us the solution to this concern.
It is accepting the fact that we are more precious than birds.
See verse 24. ?쏞onsider the crows, they neither sow nor reap, have no closets or storehouses, but God feeds them. How are you more precious than birds???
Saints! How precious are we than crows?
We are incomparable with the crows.
It is said that there are about 100 billion algae living on Earth. It's hard to imagine how all those birds live. Swallows are said to feed their cubs over 100 times a day. It is said that males and females take turns catching insects and feeding them more than 100 times. If a pair of swallows raise five young, it means that they catch 500 fly insects a day and feed them to the young. So, during the three weeks of raising the young, more than 10,000 are fed. Can you give us something to look at and feed the swallows? But one or two swallows? God feeds and raises all the flying animals.
So, don't worry, what should you do?
The Apostle Paul said in Philippians 4:6-7, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, may enter your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus, He will guard your thoughts."
God wants us to become His children who do not worry about entrusting all of our spiritual and physical work to Him. We are people who believe in the providence of God. God also harvests birds of the air and grass of the field. So what do those children say? Therefore, as children of God, we should entrust our concerns and concerns to God and give thanks in everything.
In Romans 8:32, it says, "He who graciously gave up his Son to all of us, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?"