Tuesday... Here are two very interesting words.

Matthew 6:31 (MSG) has the first word. It says, "What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving." The first word is preoccupied. It's so easy to get preoccupied with getting, isn't it?

Now this is Jesus speaking and He goes on. Verses 32-33 says, "People who don't know God and how he works fuss over these things," They are preoccupied. "but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met."

When we are so preoccupied with getting we spend a lot of time worrying, don't we? But here He says that if we steep our life in "God-reality, God-initiative, God- provisions" we don't need to worry and we will find that all of our "everyday human concerns will be met."

And then verse 34 gives us the other word which is when. Here is what this verse says, "Give you entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up" or preoccupied "about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up" and here is the other word, "when the time comes." Hard times will come. They will but don't get preoccupied with getting what you need to take care of them because God is out ahead taking care of them and He will give us what we need when they come.

God has our tomorrow's hard times taken care of. We don't have to worry. Worry comes from being preoccupied with getting. Listen, God has our "when the time comes" taken care of. So let's give our entire attention to what God is giving, what He is doing right now. And relax because He is taking care of the rest. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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