Dropping Worry And Sprouting Mindfulness Of God’s Kingdom

Hello friends and welcome to Blogtober. This year’s concept is an autumnal metaphor that I came up with: In fall, trees drop dry, decaying leaves that are not beneficial to the tree. In the same manner, uswhobelieve, can drop things (at the feet of Jesus) that are not beneficial. And, just as the trees sprout new leaves, we can replace our ‘dead leaves’ with good.

Our ‘dead leaf’ that we can drop today is: Worry.

Google defines worry in this way: to feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems. I think you guys can guess what verses I’m going to pull out for this blog. It’s a long one.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. It not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that no even Solomon in all his spender was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you – you of little faith? So do not worry saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows you need them. But seek first his kingdom and all his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:25-34

There you have it. God provides when we seek his kingdom, so we don’t need to add worry into our lives. Our ‘leaf’ of worry has fallen away and now we can sprout mindfulness of God’s kingdom. Just being aware that God know what you need and will provide. What a great reason to smile.

There is always joy to be found and joy to be had.