“The RoseBouquet”

There must be a good reason for this topic to follow the one on not serving money. Jesus says we don’t have to, we shouldn’t worry about where our daily personal provisions will come from. We can trust God, and they will come to us as naturally as birds get fed and sheltered, and as naturally as flowers get beautiful petals and blooms that out-do the richest king of the world in all his finery.

Jesus asks if life isn’t more important than clothes and food. I think He means spiritual life as well as our physical, oxygen-breathing bodies.

My answer is yes.

I think I’ve learned enough about the spiritual realm to realize it is far more important than any of the temporal things we can see with our eyes and feel with our skin. We should make all our decisions based on the principles in this far better, eternal-life realm, never mind that we can’t see it most of the time.

Jesus asks another question; “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”

Obviously, none of us can! So worrying has no positive value at all. Don’t worry.

That’s easier said than done, isn’t it? I don’t want to be a worrier, and I don’t know anyone who does. Yet it is the direct opposite of what Jesus says we are to do, trust God. So how about if we focus on trusting God and see if the worrying vanishes like darkness around a light just turned on?

PRAYER: Lord God, You ARE perfectly capable of caring for all the details of my life. The Bible even convinces me that You want to care for me. When I think backwards I recall many, many ways You have provided for me better than You do for a bird or a beautiful flower. Right now I’m making up my mind and my will to trust You for all the routine, and all the especially troublesome issues in my life. - This will crowd out worry, won’t it?

+++++Jesus is my King+++++Jesus is my King+++++

Blessings on you Today!
Ruth Marlene Friesen

P.S. Just graduating from high school in a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada, Ruthe commutes to the city of Saskatoon as a telephone operator. BUT in her off hours, she gets involved in the lives of the abused, bereaved, dying and spiritually hungry. Read Ruthe’s Story