Take no thought- Lean not unto your own understanding.

Take no thought--

-- for your life.

--for what you shall eat.

--for what you shall drink.

--for what you'll wear.

Take no thought--

-- for tomorrow.

Don't worry.   Easier said than done especially for those prone to worrying.  Faith has to become a reality for this to be possible.  We have to believe that God WILL take care of us according to HIS plan whatever that entails.

A few days ago we talked about Paul and how many beatings, imprisonments, tumultuous sea journeys, and such that he'd experienced as a Christ follower, as a faith believer. Paul didn't spend his days in worry, his nights lamenting his fate. He counted it ALL JOY.  How? Why?  Because he had faith in His Savior. If his Savior, his redeemer could suffer and even be put to a very brutal death after being tortured by the whip and a crown made of thorns, then who was he to believe that he shouldn't have to suffer?

We suffer and complain because we have that right, don't we? Everyone complains about their suffering. Oh, maybe not in the loudest of ways, but people complain. Our suffering doesn't necessarily have to be with physical pain, we complain about not having food- or the right sort of food. We complain about not having what we desire to drink and the clothes we long to wear. We even complain about tiny things. We have fresh water, but it's just not cold enough to drink. We have decent clothes but they just aren't quite fitting in with our current style. Yes, we have food, but it's not the food we are craving. Yes, we complain in what we deem our suffering- legitimate suffering or not, we lack faith, we lack trust, we lack humility and humbleness.  We are so incredibly lacking and what do we do- we cry out to God to stop our sufferings, to give us what we want and then when we continue to suffer we question whether or not God is hearing us, if He loves us. We equate our quality of life in all its aspects with how much we've been blessed by God. Rarely will you hear someone say they are blessed in their terminal disease, or their lack of money and all that entails. Yet we are BLESSED- forever BLESSED in the only way it really matters and that's with eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord! It doesn't matter whether or not we have anything at all, or if we are pain free- GOD LOVES us through it all and until we believe this we are not loving God as He loved us- unconditionally. Loving God as we watch a loved one suffer, as we watch an innocent baby or young child endure agonies is true faith not stupidity as many would have us believe. Believing that God has our ULTIMATE good in mind as we suffer in any way- even in watching others suffer- is FAITH.  We do NOT have to understand it all, we just don't! We are living for a better world, NOT this world! We are living for eternity not whatever years are allotted to us here and now pre-Christ returning. 

Truly we do need to do this--

Pro_3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

All through JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD NOW AND FOREVER!

Mat 6:25  Therefore 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? 

Mat 6:26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 

Mat 6:27  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 

Mat 6:28  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 

Mat 6:29  And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

Mat 6:30  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 

Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.