How is your soul? – How is your life with God? How are you really doing? How is the part of you that nobody sees but God? How are you growing in grace?
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-21 New International Version (NIV)
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5-7
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
merimnao : worry / anxious : being drawn in opposite directions, divided into pieces, pulled apart.
“Hurry involves excessive haste or a state of urgency, a state of frantic effort one falls into in response to inadequacy, fear, and guilt.” – Dallas Willard
The Gospel of the Kingdom is, “…the good news that the life you’ve always wanted is fully available to you right where you are through Jesus. Through Him you have access to the Father’s loving presence. Nothing—not your income level or stage of life or health or relational status—nothing is standing between you and the ‘life that is truly life.’” – John Mark Comer
The Gospel of the American Dream is, “…the more you have, the happier you’ll be.”
Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven… For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21 (NIV)
…seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well…do not worry about tomorrow…
Matthew 6:33-34 (NIV)
Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.
Luke 12:15 (NIV)
Martha, Martha…you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her
Luke 10:41-42 (NIV)
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:12-13 (NIV)
Where is God calling me to simplify my life so that I can live with a more single-minded, whole-hearted focus on His Kingdom?