Don't Worry - Be Happy

Matthew 5-7

This is rich material - ideas many of you have probably heard b4. However, this is not how the world we live in operates. Do you like being meek, poor, or in mourning? It is a great gift to have loved and then lost.

Today a new acquaintance and friend is dying. Weldon Eaton survived a roll over car accident in Utah, only to have a brain clot go to his brain. He was taken off life support this afternoon. I am just waiting to hear if he has gone on to heaven. Mourning is tough. He was a kind, generous, intelligent man. His wife Edna needs your prayers. She was also in the accident, along with their grandson, Joseph.

Chapter 6 has the "Lord's Prayer". Why is it so comforting to hear these words as we repeat them together? When you hear people praying the same words around you - is that comforting to you? If so, why?

Look again at 6:25. This verse talks about lilies of the field and birds of the air. 6:31"Therefore do not worry, saying, "What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' What about the modern saying "Image is everything"?

6:34 "Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of it's own. Today's trouble is enough for today". This is a verse that needs remembering and repeating.

Judgement is not our place according to chapter 7, verse 1. Who or what have you judged lately?

7:7 is the "ask, seek, knock" verse.

7:8 - "Everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened". Sometimes we do more knocking than listening for what God has to give us to help us understand why we aren't getting what we wanted.

7:24 - Founded on rock. Is that where your faith is? There is a children's song that goes through my head after reading this, "The wise man built his house upon a rock (repeat 2 more times)...and the rains came a -tumbling down." Let me know if you want me to sing it to you some time.

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