Break Free From Worry and AnxietySýnishorn

Jesus began His teaching on worry in Matthew 6 by saying, “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life” (v. 25). This takes us back to verse 24, where Jesus said you cannot serve two masters, God and money. If God is your Master, then He is also your Father, as Jesus went on to point out in the rest of the passage. And if God is your good and perfect Father, He will love you and care for you.

In other words, if you are being eaten up by excessive worry, your focus is not on your heavenly Father. You’ve got your eyes on the wrong authority.

Jesus drew an example from nature, that of the birds. He did not say the birds’ Creator feeds them, but “your heavenly Father.” The birds of the air eat because your Daddy feeds them.

So if God takes care of birds, what does this say about His care for us? And what are we implying about God’s care when we worry whether He will bother to feed and clothe us? When we worry, we show that we have forgotten who our Daddy is.

What difference does it make when you remember that God is your Daddy?