FEBRUARY 13 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 13  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, Praise, Glory, Honor to the King of kings, the Lord of lords, 

and the Only Name by which man can be freed of his natural sin. 

Lord Jesus, every time we see a cross, our first thought should be of the

 Great Sacrifice of the Divine Innocence, and the second thought 

should be that the Cross is Empty!!   

The Empty Cross should remind us that God loved us enough to put 

His Only Begotten Son on the Cross but also that God loved His Son so 

much that He did not leave Him there!   The Empty Cross and the 

Empty Grave express the full measure of God’s Love for us and the 

Resurrection is God’s Eternal Covenant with sinful man. 

Praise you Lord, for “It is Finished!” (John 19:30)     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS concludes His Lesson on “worry” (JQ#03 - Matthew 6:24-34) 

with His Advice that we should not seek “things” of this world

 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, 

and all these things [God knows everything that we have need of] 

shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, 

for tomorrow will worry about its own things.

 Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” 

(Matthew 6:33-34)   

The answer to the  (8) “Why worry?” Jesus Questions in the JQ#03 section

 is simply to accept the fact that depending on “self” is useless but if we 

trust Jesus and follow His commands then we will quit worrying about 

useless things of this world and use all our mental facilities to grow our

 “Faith in Jesus” and accept what God has in store for our day-to-day lives

 and our eternal future.  The Holy Spirit started me out on my personal Spiritual

 Journey to God in 2004 with Matthew 6:33 “Seek first the kingdom of God

 and His righteousness…” and whenever I feel I am being deprived of

 some worldly possession, the Holy Spirit uses Matthew 6:33 to turn my focus

 

AWAY FROM SELF AND PHYSICAL POSSESSIONS 

AND BACK ONTO THE SAVIOR — 

God’s Burning Love makes my physical worries melt away — it worked in 2004

 and has worked every year since and remains TRUE today! There simply

 is no room in “Faith” for “worry” as the foundation of “Faith in God” 

is built upon “Trust in God” — “Worry” is simply wrong in the spiritual 

realm because “Worry” is constructed wholly on “Distrust” and there are 

NO reasons not to “Trust God” , therefore we should accept with full 

Faith in God what Jesus commands us:

 “Therefore, DO NOT WORRY…” (Matthew 6:34) 

The great thing about the Teachings of Jesus is that He always takes some

 worldly action or attitude and shows us how to put it into the

 “proper Spiritual perspective” and use the new perspective to grow

 in Jesus Himself! Jesus is the original author of “DO AS I DO” because

 everything He Taught, He Lived, and just like when at the Last Supper

 Jesus Himself “Broke the Bread” with His own hands and stated, 

“With desire I have desired to eat this passover

 with you before I suffer…” 

(Luke 22:15)  

Jesus not only was stating by His actions that He was willing to “Suffer” 

for us, He was being our “Living Example” —

 “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” (John 1:14) 

If Jesus had not lived the Perfect Sinless Life there would have been 

plenty of people that would have pointed out to everyone that this Man 

claiming to “be God” was just a sinner like everyone else because even

 one small sin would have disqualified Jesus from being God! If Jesus had

 sinned even the smallest sin or been imperfect in even the slightest mis-step 

there would have been no way could Jesus have commanded us:

 “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

 (Matthew 5:48) 

This command can also be used as a “prophecy” as Jesus Teaches us

 that if we will become like Him, then we will be made Perfect like Him,

 “just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” The point in learning from Jesus

 is to be like Jesus, and to abide forever with Jesus and our “Father in heaven”

 where finally, after all our earthly mistakes, we will at last achieve our

 “Spiritual” goal and be given the heavenly prize of an eternal “Worry Free” life. 

It is “Good News” to know that God knows all our sins and has provided

 a way that all our sins will be forgiven — it is in the knowledge that

 Jesus has Redeemed us from all our iniquities that we should listen to JESUS

 when He Lovingly Teaches us

 “Do Not Worry” for our “heavenly Father” 

God Himself has “Good Plans for all our tomorrows”!!!  

We all should take great comfort in knowing that God knows ALL for God is

 willing to FORGIVE all our sin for His Only Begotten Son died on a cross,

 was buried in a grave but was 

RAISED TO ETERNAL GLORY on the 3rd Day 

thereby completing

 God’s Plan of SALVATION 

for a lost and dying sin-filled world — 

we can never hide anything from God but remember

 GOD KNOWS ALL and if we simply ask for FORGIVENESS 

in the NAME OF JESUS 

that GOD FORGIVES us ALL our iniquities!!!