Love Reigns Over Our Future. Week 4.

Love Reigns Over Our Future. Week 4.

Matthew 6:25-34

Too many people are consumed with worry and anxiety about what tomorrow might hold.

This fear can be paralyzing.

As Christians, we believe that our loving heavenly Father is always looking out for us.

Remember, If God takes care of the birds in the air, and the flowers of the field, that gives us confidence that He will take care of us too.

Hear this, There is no benefit from worry, In fact, anxiety only hurts us. Today we should make up our minds to trust God, and allow him to guide our steps.

Think about this statement: I do not have control of the future; however, I can possess strong faith in my eternal God.

 I truly believe that My heavenly Father is looking out for me and will provide for my needs. - I’m never alone! P.H

It’s time to turn your worries into prayers and trust God’s plan for your life.

Today is the final day of our sermon series, Love Reigns. We have been challenging ourselves to allow the love of God to reign in every area of our lives.

The first week, we celebrated the life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter. We celebrate because the resurrection is the proof that Jesus is the true King of the world who has authority over all things.

The second week, we looked at how God’s love reigns over our past. Though our mistakes and sins can be a heavy burden on us, we embrace the love of God that forgives us our past and offers us a fresh start.

Last week we discovered that God’s love gives us promise for our present. We can make choices that create healthier patterns in our lives and renew our minds to live in obedience to God.

This final week of our series I want to speak about allowing the love of God to reign over our future.

By the way, the future is a pretty hot topic.

I remember as a kid having a little toy that was supposed to help us know what the future held. It was a Magic 8 Ball.

I used it for all kinds of questions I had about the future. You would shake up that mysterious little triangle floating in the blue liquid inside.

I’d ask it about whether my middle school crush would like me. Oddly enough, it always gave me the answer “Don’t Count On It”.

I’d ask about how my grades would turn out and the answer would be “Better Not Tell You Now”.

I’d ask about my future career to which it would respond “Ask Again Later”.

This little toy, Magic 8 ball actually came out in 1950, is a tell-tale sign that our culture has a keen interest in the future.

Matthew 6:25-34NKJV “Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

We all have wondered from time to time about what the future might hold for us. Sometimes we wonder because our current situation is painful and we want to get on the other side of the difficulty. Sometimes we wonder because we are excited about the possibilities before us.

Either way, our curiosity about the future can sometimes slip into an unhealthy obsession

with what is to come, and that my friend is commonly called worry.

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