When we think about our lives and all the things that could go wrong, we’d never run out of things to worry about.
We can worry about our health and the health of our loved ones. We can worry about being fired from our jobs or about failing in our business. We can worry about not having enough to meet our obligations and to provide for the needs of our family. We can worry about losing the people we love.
In all these things, however, let us remember that God is with us. He knows our needs and He cares about us much more than we could ever realize.
What is the good of worrying when we can instead learn to trust?
Instead of spending our time in fear, let us spend it in working hard and in loving other people. Let us spend time praying so that we may never forget that we are not alone.
God is our only refuge. He is our only hope. And what wonderful hope we have in Jesus!
“Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.” — Luke 12:22–31, WEBBE
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"