Don't Play It Safe #14

Jesus knew what it was to live with the uncertainties and stresses of daily life. He had heard all of the "what if?" questions. But He also knew better than any of us the power and love of His Father. Therefore, when He was challenging people to follow Him, He made this statement in Matthew 6:

 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little fait

It seems like an atmosphere of anxiety has settled upon our society and even the whole world. Everyone is waiting for the next bad thing to happen and seems to be stuck.  God did not make us to live that way. He made us and calls us back to a life where looking ahead should be filled with a sense of wonder in what God can and will do as He watches over us.  If we live in fear, the bird never flies; if we withdraw from life and its uncertainties the lily never even pushes through the dirt.  We miss out on so much of what God wants us to experience by trying to avoid risks and living by "What if's". What do you think God is calling you to but are afraid to do it?