God Wants You Free From Worry

Is your heart full of worries about your health, finances, family or future? God wants you free from worry. Even when all is well, some people still worry because they have heard others say, “You should worry when everything is peaceful because something is wrong when the devil leaves you alone.” So they worry even when there is nothing to worry about!

But God does not want you to worry about what you will eat or drink, or about your body and what you will put on your back. Jesus tells us not to worry about our daily provisions because God, who is our heavenly Father, knows that we need all these things and He wants to add these things to us (Matthew 6:32–33).

God is the same God who took care of the children of Israel in the wilderness, feeding them with manna every day for 40 years (Exodus 16). Under His care, His people had no lack. When the people wanted meat for dinner, He simply rained quails on them (Numbers 11:31–32). The children of Israel only had to pick them up. If they had gone to look for meat themselves, they probably would not have found any in the desert.

The problem with us today is that we think that we must do something to help ourselves. Some of us may even think that it is easy for Jesus to say, “Don’t worry. Take no thought for your life,” because He does not understand the problems we face in life.

But the truth is that Jesus understands the problems we face in life. In fact, He faced what I would call the “final problem”—death. Death is the “final problem” because it puts an end to all our other problems. Jesus faced death at the cross, conquered it and rose from the dead. And because He conquered the problem of problems, we can trust Him when He tells us not to worry!