“How are you doing?”  I hear this question so often in life and especially now during the coronavirus situation. Do you have a sense that things are under control, or, do you sense  that things are totally out of control? I have heard people make the statement that they are afraid we will never see things normal again.

I often ask myself, “What do they consider normal?” Normal means ‘usual’, ‘regular’, ‘common’, ‘habit’, ‘addicted’. In other words ‘normal’ means we want to live our lives according to that which we have become ‘addicted’. We don’t want our routine interrupted and when it is we become anxious and frustrated. 

Now to be ‘anxious’ is to ‘worry’, to be ‘fretful’, to be ‘nervous’, to be ‘frightened’. To be honest there are so many things that happen, in our lives, that will interrupt our ‘normal’ that we have absolutely no control over. We all know this is true but we will worry, fret and become obsessed over things that are out of our control. 

The greatest preacher to ever preach was Jesus! He preached with authority, and power, because every word He preached was TRUE! In Matthew 6:25 Jesus said, ”Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought (don’t be anxious) for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on (your clothing). Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” 

What Jesus is teaching us is that we spend too much time being anxious over things that our Heavenly Father will provide for us! Verse 25 begins with the word ‘therefore’ which takes us back to what Jesus has been establishing in His sermon and that in light of who our heavenly Father is stop worrying! Jesus proceeds to tell us that if our Father feeds the sparrows, and dresses the flowers of the field, surely He will feed and provided clothing for His children who are most important to Him.

What should be normal for the born again children of the living God is to live by faith and not be fretting over the material and the entertainment of the flesh. The priorities of the world must not be our priorities for the chasing of the normal of the world will lead to worry and frustration.

JESUS SAID, “BUT SEEK YE ‘FIRST’ THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.”  MATT. 6:33

SEE YOU SOON – BRO. ED