September 27, 2012
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Matthew 6: Day 11
I’ve been told that mother’s worry. It is part of their job description. I am not sure when it was that I became a ‘mother’ in my own way; perhaps it is when I started calling the kids I worked with “my kids.” It just slipped out. Truth often does that.
I worry for my kids. Matthew 6:25 spoke to me this morning: “Hey Rachel! Don’t worry about your life, about food, or about clothes.”
“But God—there are so many of them—them that don’t have! My kids that are hungry, that don’t have proper clothes, that can’t read or have any opportunities in life!”
Matthew 6:32: “Don’t you know I (God) already know that? That I know what you need, what they need? You are acting like someone who doesn’t know me.”
Ouch. “But I am just being realistic. What is see is LACK. What I see is that You are NOT providing and they are going hungry, they are living empty lives.”
Matthew 6:30, 26 “You of little faith. Look at the little things—you will SEE. Look at the birds: and I love you more than them—I love your kids more than them. Look at the flowers: and each one of those children is much more precious than anything in nature. I WILL take care of them.”
So it goes back to that? Looking at the little things and saying ‘thank you’?” That gratitude? That maybe my whole job is just to be thankful and to teach others how to see what God does and give thanks as well? But what about my fight against poverty? Illiteracy?
Matthew 6:27 “When has worry ever helped you? Hum? That is what I thought.”
Bottom line is Matthew 6:33 “Work to find God in everything, and put Him first. Learn to see Him working in families that have no food, no kitchen, no bathroom, no education. And everything else will be taken care of—God will take care of these children, all of whom He loves even more than you do.”
But I still struggle. I struggle when I read statistics. Children are still dying. I struggle when I run down the road with five children pulling me, and I see their house falling apart with a bucket of water in front that is their kitchen and bathroom. God stuck the last verse of the chapter in there for me:
Matthew 6:34 “So quit worrying about the future—because you can’t even handle today. Just work on finding ME in everything today.” (All Scripture was paraphrased by Rachel if you couldn’t tell).
This is the study on what the Bible says about the poor that I was too lazy to do, so I found it already on the internet: http://www.zompist.com/meetthepoor.html
