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Look at the birds. They don't need to plant or harvest or put food in barns because your heavenly father feeds them.
Matthew 6:26
I confess. I worry. As I live on my husband's income fleshing out the call of writing and teaching God called me to do, I worry. About how I will pay all of the bills sitting on my desk. About how I will take care of the much-needed repairs around my home. About my approaching retirement years.
And that's when I'm reminded to look at the birds. For they don't worry. They just soar throughout the air - doing exactly what they have been created to do.
What has God created you to do? To be a mother who has chosen to stay home to raise her children to live as God-fearing adults in an ungodly world? To be a business executive who leads her organization through difficult and challenging waters? To be a missionary traveling to the remote parts of the earth? To be a wife willing to hang in there through a long and difficult marriage?
Whatever you have been created to do, God does not want you worrying about your needs. Instead, He wants you to focus on living out the mission he created you to do. So whether that's living your life as a mother, wife, career woman or missionary, continue to soar in the purpose he has given you. And trust your heavenly father to take care of the rest, because just like the birds, He's got you!
The following poem I wrote says it another way:
You told me not to worry about the cares of life today
For you would take good care of me like you did yesterday
You told me not to worry when life seems to go awry
For every need I have today you promised to supply
So I promise not to worry over what the day may bring
If I will have enough to eat or a million other things
For as you take care of every bird that soars throughout the air
I know you'll take good care of me, no matter what the care.
Sharing the Word,
Jeaninne
Prayer:
Father, when I worry, remind me to look at the birds. Amen.
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