A Gospel View of Worry预览

Our Rescue from Worry

In verse 33, what Christ says can be summed up in this way: Let the greatest priority in your life be to live with faith in God, and in obedience to God, who is your heavenly Father. He has brought you into His Kingdom. So, allow your right standing with Him, based on your faith in me, to be reflected in your daily lives as you depend on Him to meet all your needs.

Earlier on in verse 8 of this same chapter, Christ had said: Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. In verses 25 and 27, Christ asks these questions: Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And, then, in verse 34, Christ concludes by saying: Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

We tend to think that worrying is an unconscious experience that we can’t control or do anything about so we tend to see worrying as something we just find ourselves doing. But, from this passage, we see that this is just not the case, otherwise, Christ would not have commanded us not to worry.

By commanding us not to worry Christ is helping us to see that worrying is a choice we make to respond to our circumstances that are based on our worldview about God, money, and our possessions.

So, in this passage, Christ is saying, if you let the gospel shape your worldview, you will naturally stop worrying because you will know for a fact that your Father in heaven, who gave Christ for you on the cross, will also meet all your daily needs (Rom 8:32).

In short, Christ was saying to these people, and to us today: Stop worrying so much about your daily lives because God, your Father in heaven, has all your today, and all your tomorrow, covered! Stop worrying!

So, we can summarise our third R from this passage by saying that the gospel rescues us from worry when we look at what God has done for us in Christ on the cross because our focus on the gospel enables us to shift our faith from money to God, and what He has done for us in Christ.