What can You add to Your Life by Worrying, Mama?

Tonight we will talk about what we can add to our lives by worrying, Mamas. We will see what God says about worry in His Word. 

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Good evening, mamas, and welcome back to Midlight, your light in the middle of the night. Tonight I want to start with a funny little story from earlier today. My husband sent me a text message that simply said, Do we have any old peanuts lying around? And I kind of giggled and thought, What? So I called him and said, What do you need old peanuts for? He went on to tell me a story about a crow that comes back to his shop over and over throughout the years, and he can recognize her because she has a leg that doesn't work. And he said that she kept getting into his trash can and taking French fries and having to drink out of dirty water puddles, and he wanted me to bring her some food and a bucket for water. And I told him, Oh honey, I love the way that God made you. You see, my husband is a man's man. He can fix anything, he can protect, he's just a phenomenal man. And yet he cares so much about the critters around him that he wanted to take care of this crow. So I looked it up different things that would work to keep a crow alive if they were to need secondary food, and we found out several different things that could work, but I ended up bringing him a bag of cat food. Yes, cat food, because apparently it has good nutrition for a crow. I wanted to share that story with you tonight because it led me to think about this very verse that I feel the Lord wants to share with us as mamas tonight. Just like my husband didn't want that crow to go without something it needed. God feels that way about us, mamas, and I thought of this chapter six verse in Matthew, and I want to read to you from verse twenty five through twenty seven, and it goes like this. The title at the top of the verses is Do not worry. It says 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? 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? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So I looked up what cubit means. In ancient text it means basically the length from the forearm to the end of the hand or the tip of the middle finger to be precise, which is generally between 18 and 21 inches, in case you're wondering. But basically what God is saying here is that we can't add anything to our lives by worrying. And I was thinking about the little crow that my husband wanted to feed today, and I thought, isn't it interesting that God chose to use my husband to give this crow what she needed? And apparently she has a nest in the tree next to his shop. So he's not actually just taking care of the crow, mama, he's also taking care of the babies. That is actually just like my husband. But is it also not just like the Lord? And when he takes care of us, he isn't just taking care of us as mamas, he's taking care of the little ones that we are taking care of and we are tending to right now, because God's heart is that we would not worry, because he knows that he is taking care of us. And I love how this part of Scripture specifically tells us not to worry about food or clothing or really anything, because if the Lord is willing to feed the birds of the air, that they don't sow or reap or gather into barns like they don't keep it around. Is he telling us that we are more important than even those birds? Yes he is. He is telling us that he will give us everything we need, because he is our provider, he is our sustainer, and we can't add anything to our lives by worrying. What if we just thought about that for a minute? What if we just thought about what life would look like if we really truly chose not to worry about the very things that we have worried about today or tonight? What if we didn't allow worry to keep sleep from us? What if we chose to let faith be bigger than our fear? What if we really picked up this part of God's word and decided that God is bigger and that he is in charge of us and we have no worries because if he is willing to take care of a bird in the air, he will take so much more care of us because we matter to him so deeply, just like our little ones matter so deeply to us. I just think it's so interesting how he then goes on in verse twenty eight to say, So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they neither toil nor spin, and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 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? Hmm, I just think it's so precious the way that the Lord tells us that we are not even to worry about the clothing. Mamma, we are so blessed to take care of our little ones and the things that they need, and we take great care in the clothes we put on our babies, don't we? Maybe even more so than ourselves sometimes as mammas. But God says, Don't even worry about that, because I clothe the lilies of the field, and they're not here very long. I will take excellent care of you. At the very end of this chapter, I love this verse in verse thirty three. It wraps it all together, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. That verse has always just struck a chord with me because the truth of it all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. What does that mean, mamma? That means put your confidence in God, seek what He has for you first, and everything you need will be given to you. What a beautiful truth that God gives us in these scriptures tonight. I am so thankful for His word and His promises. Tonight, mammas, before we go, I want to leave you with a prayer of blessing from Numbers 6, twenty four through twenty six. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face to shine upon you, be gracious unto you and give you peace. Amen. I encourage you tonight, mammas, to lay down your worry and pick up your trust in the Lord, and these things shall be added unto you. Until next time, Mamas, take care.