Take A Break
And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Matthew 5:36, ESV
Jesus is giving instructions about life to the disciples and the crowd that came out to see Him on the mountain. Scripture says that there was a large crowd that had come to Jesus, so He sat on the side of the mountain and began to teach the Sermon on the Mount. I was listening to this message, intentionally feeding my spirit, when I heard Jesus say, “We cannot make our hair white or black on our head.” Now, we can dye our hair all we want, but when our hair grows out the color we’ve tried to cover up, it’s going to show.
This just got me to thinking about how little control we really have over our bodies and over our lives. We had no control when we entered this earth. We could not pick our parents, or what we looked like - that was all done for us divinely by our creator ELOHIM. Yet we can find ourselves anxious over things that we cannot control. In truth we are probably better off when we don’t have control because then we know for sure the divine one is taking care of things.
He specifically says, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?” (Matthew 6:25-34)
What I love most about Adonai is that He never gives instructions without telling us how to do it! After He gives the message saying to not being anxious, He then tells us how to do that - seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
He also reminds us that trouble will come but we do not have to worry about it because we can seek and rest in Him. Amen.
Father, thank you that we can rest in the midst of all of our troubles. Thank you for giving us all we need to live in the wonderful place of peace and joy when we trust you. In Jesus’s name. Amen.
Affirmations; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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