The Futility of Worry
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?—Matthew 6:27 (NIV)
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”—1 Kings 3:5 (NIV)
“The trouble with most prayers is that they aren’t big enough,” said Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. In the above verse, God asked Solomon for whatever he wanted. If He asked you the same question what would your response be? Would you ask for wisdom? Wealth? Happiness?
Heavenly Father, what I want most, more than any earthly possession or pleasure, is to know and follow You.
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?—Matthew 6:27 (NIV)
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.—Genesis 9:13 (NIV)
Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”—Lu ke 12:15 (NIV)