FEBRUARY 10 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#03 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life… Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” (Matthew 6:25)

 

FEBRUARY 10  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

   JQ#03  “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…

Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” 

(Matthew 6:25)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Jesus, Jesus, O the Privilege it is to call on Your Name! Lord each 

day I have need of Your Mercy and Grace and each day my heart

 overflows with Praise for You because You have abundantly supplied all

 that I need, in spite of my continual stumbling. 

Lord, You know my heart and I am getting more secure in Your Love

 because I know that You know the depths of my sinful nature and yet 

Your Grace abounds deeper still — not because of anything I have 

done to deserve even the smallest of Your attentions, but You continue to 

Forgive all of my transgressions that I present to You daily and You

 Lovingly Guide me to Your Peace because that is Who You chose to

 be for our sakes! 

O the Mystery of God, that the Creator of the ends of the earth, 

the Pure Innocent Redeemer who chose to die on a cross for the guilty,

 to suffer the agony we deserve and give us access to Your Heaven. 

Praise the Forgiving God!!!     

AMEN 

THE JESUS QUESTIONS   

JESUS started JQ#03 with a section on “worry” and in this section

 Jesus uses 8 Questions to get us thinking about “worry”. This section

 in Matthew 6:25-34 contains several verses that the Holy Spirit impressed 

upon me on my Spiritual Journey to Truth that I feel has led me back

 to the right path when the world had closed in on me like it so often does

 to all of us.  When you finally get back on the right path again you see 

that it was some form of “worry” that distracted you and just that quick 

when we take our eyes off the Truth and let the world and all its 

worries get our attention we find ourselves off the main road — if we are

 lucky we will be on a stretch of road that has “warning bumps” to get our

 focus back where it is supposed to be and the Spirit will redirect our

 wayward steps and correct our course back from the Broad Path 

of Destruction to the “Narrow Paths of Righteousness”! Matthew 6:33 

is one of those verses for me that has kept me focused on Jesus and

 when my eyes are firmly fixed on Him, for Jesus again and again tells 

us that worries and wrong doing have no place in our life. 

I will attempt to share how my wanderings into darkness were redirected

 to the Light and the right paths from this section where Jesus Teaches

 us about “worry” by stating very emphatically: 

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…” 

(Matthew 6:25a) 

It is a very bold statement but let’s consider JESUS is making it! 

The “Therefore” comes immediately after Jesus had stated in Matthew 6:24,

 “You cannot serve God and mammon” and the implication here is that

 if you chose to “serve God” then there is no need to “worry”. Jesus uses

 the next 7 verses (Matthew 6:24-32) to show that “worry” is primarily

 caused by serving “mammon” but closes with two powerful verses

 (Matthew 6:33-34) that show how to eliminate “worry” — spiritual speed

 bumps if you will — so let’s look at each of the 8 Questions in this

 section and apply them to reducing “worry” in our lives.

 JQ#3a —“Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?”

 (Matthew 6:25b) 

Each Question that Jesus asks is to make us stop and think about the simple

 Questions we encounter in our daily lives and give Him back a simple answer

 that shows Him we are listening to His Teachings. For instance, when 

I read this passage with the intent of “learning from Jesus” I can more 

easily come to an answer because Jesus never asks a Question without

 a specific answer in mind that will Teach followers a specific point that

 will make our life better if we bother to listen to His Question and answer Him

 honestly, keeping in mind that if we listen to our answer back to Him 

that we will indeed learn the Lesson He is intent on Teaching and 

within every Jesus Lesson is a Truth of God!

 I am sure that if you stop and consider that 

“life IS more than food” 

and 

“the body IS more than clothing” 

then you will start to see what Jesus is trying to Teach and the answer then

 is a simple “Yes, I see now that You have corrected my course”. 

Read Matthew 6:25 again and literally pray your answer to Jesus through

 your prayer and then

 “wait on the LORD” 

for the blessings that He will pour out!