This morning I read the "My Utmost..." reading for today entitled, "Having God's 'Unreasonable' Faith". The key verse was:

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you —Matthew 6:33

So I opened my Bible to the passage and saw it was the last verse in the section on worry (Mt 6:25-33)...and I decided I needed to apply myself to memorizing it once and for all! So I'm working on it. :)

But there were also some really great and challenging quotes by Oswald Chambers, who says...

". . . do not worry about your life. . ." ( Matthew 6:25 ). Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live.

Have you ever thought that it was unreasonable to be anxious? I never have...and that was a challenging thought to me... Then he adds:

Jesus did teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that.

I want my relationship with God to be the dominating focus of my life...but I confess that I still struggle - daily - with that worry thing... So today I started praying that God would help me to catch myself as soon as I was in the grips of worry and then to immediately come to Him, as He tells us to do in Philippians 4:6-8...

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

I realize that this isn't a once-for-all action, but rather something I will probably need to do many times within a day...for the rest of my life...and that's okay. Our spiritual lives are a process...and God is transforming us into the image of His Son! What a faithful covenant-God we love! Praise Him with me! And come to Him often...He loves to hear your voice!

MR