Daily Dose 06/26/2023

Devotional

 

Anxiety Distracts Us

“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?” (Matt. 6:25

 Anxiety is an emotion, but it is more than a feeling. Anxiety also includes a physical reaction but is also more than that too. So you ask what then is it? There are two words used in the new testament to refer to the experience. One of the words is merimna which means care, and merizo which means to draw in a different direction or to distract. To be anxious is to have distracting care, our hearts and minds are torn between two worlds. Jesus warns us about this when He was talking about the thorns choking out the word of God, which is intended to produce faith. Jesus Identifies these thorns as cares of the world (Mark 4:19), or the cares and the riches and the pleasures of life (Luke 8:14). 

Anxious cares are typically tied to our earthly lives and most often are temporal, and not eternal. These distracting cares divide our mental energy and cloud our spiritual vision. They keep us focused on the here and now, instead on the future promised but not yet. Anxiety diverts us from what is more important. It causes our eyes to see only what is before us at that very moment. Our worries exert great efforts to keep our vision fixed on the horizontal the things of the earth, instead of the vertical, the things of God. Jesus commands us not to be anxious about our food or drink or clothing. He then directs us to look somewhere else. By looking at the birds of the air and the flowers of the field we shift our focus to our heavenly Father who promises to provide even better care for us than He does for them.

Jesus said” Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added to you (Matt 6:33).

God Bless You

Have a wonderful Day

Rev. Reginald Stevens

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