Stop worrying
God answered Moses, “So, do you think I can’t take care of you? You’ll see soon enough whether what I say happens for you or not.” ~ Numbers 11:23 (MSG)
Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don’t work hard to make their clothes. But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth wasn’t as well clothed as one of them... Don’t worry and ask yourselves, “Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to wear?” ~ Matthew 6:28-29,31 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE:
God will take care of things, so stop worrying.
PRAYER:
Thank you, God, for taking good care of me up to this point. I know that you will take care of me again but for some reason I can't turn off the worry. The ongoing pandemic, my health issues, the political chaos and disappointment, the trouble with the economy and how that will affect my finances... Reassure me again so that I can let go of the worries and live fully in the gift of this moment. I'm going to meditate on these verses for awhile. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
