Do Not Worry, Trust in Jesus

The following “poem” came to me in at a time when I most needed it. When your children are young you worrying about many things. When they grow up it isn’t any easier, just different.  

TRUST ME

Do you believe that I am the Son of God?

And do you believe that I died for all men and women and that I rose from the dead?

Then why do you continue to be distracted and anxious about your loved ones?

Do they not also belong to me?

Would I refuse to work in their lives as I work in yours?

I have not put you in charge of saving them.

I have already done that.

Nor have I charged you to change them.

Your task is to love them, forgive them and pray for them and to turn them over to Me.

Come closer to Me yourself.

And I will do the rest.

TRUST ME!

More of Jesus’s teaching on the fruitlessness of worrying from the gospel of Luke

Luke 12:22-34 NIV

Not Worry

22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! 25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? 26 Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

27 “Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!29 And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. 30 For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.