Fear is a 'terrible master'

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"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matthew 6: 33-34). 

These Bible verses from the New Testament are comforting — but how do we apply them to our modern lives, which can be full of stress and anxiety? Jesus Christ’s words in this Bible verse are "the very key" to addressing an issue that "troubles men’s hearts" most today: anxiety.

Before Jesus stated this, he enumerated [in prior passages] the things of life that trouble us, from scarcely having enough to eat to possessing such an overabundance of things that it burdens us.

Regardless of the situation, anxiety and fear are debilitating and terrible masters worldwide. Over the past several years, fear "has robbed people" of "reasonable thinking, hope, peace, love and vision. Think about it for a moment. Because of fear, people have boxed themselves into a room — masked up, sheltered down and closed up.

Fear has "choked the hope and life" out of many people today. They forgot that Jesus says, 'Seek first the kingdom of God.'" The powers that be in this world are not the powers that will last, but God's kingdom will last." 

Jesus said, 'Seek … his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." We all need the very things — "Jesus Christ provides." 

In addition, there is no righteous political leader. No citizen is righteous. No icon or celebrity is righteous. Only God is righteous, and he's righteous in his promises. Jesus tells us not to worry about tomorrow. Why would he say such a thing?

Because tomorrow is the very thing we worry about — will I be able to pay my bills? What will the test results reveal? Will my job still be there? Will tomorrow be a good day or a bad day? We are prone to worry about tomorrow. But Jesus Christ says do not worry about it. Let tomorrow stay in tomorrow, and I'll take care of it for you when that day becomes today.

We need to "take the promises of Jesus Christ, and for that matter the entire Word of God, and rest in them because he has promised to take care of all those who seek him first.

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