The result of singleness of mind is freedom from anxiety. The keynote to liberation from worry is this: Seek ye first the kingdom of God.... and all these things shall be added unto you. If day by day we do Hiscwill and cast all our care on Him, then we can have a glorious freedom from anxiety, freedom from fear of want, freedom from fear that we shall not be clothed or fed ( see. Matt. 6:25-34).
These are days when men are seeking material security. Fear of poverty causes them to demand that the government provide for them. And so instead of being dependent on God, men more and more become dependent on the government. Communism makes a man a cog in a machine. One does what the government tells him to do, and the government does his thinking and provides for him even as a jailer provides for the inmates. The welfare state leads in the same direction. These things frustate the divine plan which is that men learn to lean on God and secure His guidance day by day and depend upon Him to care for them. So the Lord would have men to cast all their care upon Him, for He careth for them.
Yet our trust in God is not a passive trust without activity. The birds of the air which Christ spoke about are constantly making provision. Everything they do is done with the view of the future. The winged creature builds her nest, lays her eggss, and nestles above them with the thought of the young birdlets which will presently hattch from the shells. And when this happenss the parents instinctively go iin search of food to satisfy the fledglings' appetites. But everything is done in tranquility in an unconscious fulfillment of the purpose of God.
So it is in the matter of health. How many people have a chronic neurotic condition because they live in a state of continuous morbid anxiety. They are like Martha, troubled about many things; but in their anxiety they miss the most important thing, A complete committal of their lives to God.
Rememberr these words, Sufficient unto the day is evil thereof. There is no purpose in crossing bridges before we come to them.
May God bless, golfjack
These are days when men are seeking material security. Fear of poverty causes them to demand that the government provide for them. And so instead of being dependent on God, men more and more become dependent on the government. Communism makes a man a cog in a machine. One does what the government tells him to do, and the government does his thinking and provides for him even as a jailer provides for the inmates. The welfare state leads in the same direction. These things frustate the divine plan which is that men learn to lean on God and secure His guidance day by day and depend upon Him to care for them. So the Lord would have men to cast all their care upon Him, for He careth for them.
Yet our trust in God is not a passive trust without activity. The birds of the air which Christ spoke about are constantly making provision. Everything they do is done with the view of the future. The winged creature builds her nest, lays her eggss, and nestles above them with the thought of the young birdlets which will presently hattch from the shells. And when this happenss the parents instinctively go iin search of food to satisfy the fledglings' appetites. But everything is done in tranquility in an unconscious fulfillment of the purpose of God.
So it is in the matter of health. How many people have a chronic neurotic condition because they live in a state of continuous morbid anxiety. They are like Martha, troubled about many things; but in their anxiety they miss the most important thing, A complete committal of their lives to God.
Rememberr these words, Sufficient unto the day is evil thereof. There is no purpose in crossing bridges before we come to them.
May God bless, golfjack
