“ So, don’t worry about these things, saying,” What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ Matthew 6:31
Many of us have a room set up in our heads, called the “Worry Room”. It is where we go with all the unsolved things, the worries that don’t go away. It is like they have their very own shelf. There is a comfortable chair where you sit and rehearse the scenarios of things that don’t resolve in time or the way you are praying and hoping.
I was struck today when I read this verse. I have read it many times in my life. Today, I saw my questions that are rolling in my head. I seldom worry about these questions listed as I am well provided for, BUT, I have my list of questions and could replace them with the ones in the passage.
The next verse is still relevant whatever our list of questions may be. ”These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your Heavenly Father knows all of your needs.”( v. 32) I wonder how often in prayer as I go back to my “worry room” I act like an “unbeliever” who does not know or believe that God knows me and is well aware of what is keeping me awake at night.
The other day, I had a neat picture as I was praying. I laid down a burden that was very heavy for me and a bit prickly, to be honest. I got up to leave and found myself reaching to pick up the burden once again and an enormous Hand moved over this burden, “No I have this in hand, do not worry”. And peace came.
It is like when you are out for a meal with a friend and have already decided you will pay the bill for both of you. When the bill arrives you both reach for it, but your hand covers the bill. You say, “No, I will take care of this”. It is the same idea.
Today, as you take your heavy burden, that one that keeps being rolled around in your ”worry room’. When you get fed up with rehearsing it, and finally lay it down before our Father, imagine His great hand, covering that heavy burden and Him saying to you “I know - I will take care of it; leave it with Me”.
Dear Father,
Thank you for Your watch care over me. Thank you for Your eye which is locked on me as I come into your throne room. Thank you for your willingness, to pick up this burden and take care of it for me. Fill me with Your peace even while things seem unresolved from my point of view.
In Jesus Name,
Amen