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Today’s world is one where diseases are being cured like never before. Today’s world gives us access to information with just a click of a mouse. If we are hungry, we no longer have to scour the plains in search of tonight’s dinner. Some count these advancements as progress in the sense that our lives are more safe and convenient. However, caught somewhere in the shuffle of the “dot-coms” and the next iPhone, there is Jesus. No modern advancement can take away the realities of everyday. No surgical scalpel can heal the pain inside of my heart. When the check register bleeds red, a financial guru can’t put me back in the black. The truth is that many sleepless nights marched through twilight, as I played my own winning scenarios just like a football coach does when his team is down by a touchdown at the end of the fourth quarter. In essence, I want to call my own shots, be my own hero and lead “Team Shawn” to victory. In doing so, I have given into the very thing that Jesus asks me not to: worry. Sometimes I forget exactly how much Jesus cares about me and admitting this makes me feel strange. It’s almost as though I exchange the image of the Jesus I know, the man who healed the sick, the man who defied Satan’s temptation and most importantly, the man who saved me from my sin – for a Jesus far different. I instead conjure up an image of some Charlton Hesston-type Jesus, angry, aloof and far too busy with the imponderables of world peace and human suffering to concern himself with little, insignificant me. Thankfully, this passage calls me back to reality. I am reminded of how intimate our Father is and how no detail is too small. The man who breathed all creation into existence does indeed sweat the small stuff; He’s even concerned how the lilies grow! So, the question remains: why do I get consumed with worry at times? Worry is a symptom of the human condition, but the Bible reminds me it is not the cure for my problems –Jesus is. |
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