I
enjoy Pastor Jon Courson. I read his commentary and
listen to him online. I am putting together a bag for my
unbelieving family in the event of my death or the
rapture. So far, it contains this book and a copy of
Chuck Missler's "Learn the Bible in 24 hours". My
commentary and Strong's Concordance rest beneath the
bag. This is a verbatim copy of Pastor Jon Courson's
January 5th entry from his book, "A Day's Journey". It
struck me this morning as something I need to remember.
May it help you as well.
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January 5
Therefore I say
unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall
eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what
ye shall put on.
Matthew 6:25
Does
this mean we should live recklessly? No. The word
"thought" implies anxious thought or worry. The
word "worry" literally means "to strangle".
If you're worried about what you're wearing or eating, about
what you have or don't have materially, your personality will
be tied in knots and strangled.
It
doesn't take much strangle us. Even minor things worry
us and sometimes destroy us. I read that it takes sixty
trillion droplets of fog to cover seven city blocks.
Sixty trillion droplets or seven city blocks worth of fog can
close down airports and tie up traffic. Yet if you
condensed those sixty trillion fog droplets, you would end up
with only half a glass of water.
That's
a perfect picture of what worry is all about. You begin
with something little - only half a glass of water - but you
start thinking about it and wrestling with it, wondering, "How
is this going to work out? How am I going to do
that?" And pretty soon, you can't see straight, and your
airport is shut down. You're not hearing from the Lord,
and you're not soaring with the Lord as you once did because
you're all fogged in.
That
is why Jesus said, "Don't take any anxious thought
whatsoever." Don't let worry strangle you. Don't
end up in a fog.
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Watch
ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,
and to stand before the Son of man. – Luke
21:36