Don't Worry, Be Happy

This is the outline of this morning's sermon in church.

1. We need not worry because God is our provider.

2. We need not worry because it is futile and we cannot change anything.

3. We need not worry because God knows what we need.

4. We need not worry because our future is in God's hands.

"Worry is the sin of distrusting the promise and providence of God." - John MacArthur

Do Not Worry

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)

Resolved, that I would 'not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present [my] requests to God' (Philippians 4:6, NIV).

Links: To the Praise of His Glorious Grace (24 Sep 10), God is both sovereign and good (27 Sep 10)