DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW - OVERCOME

DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW - OVERCOME

"Don't worry about tomorrow" (Matthew 6:34a).

Most of us, from time to time or nearly all of the time, worry about
something - our health, our finances, our loved ones, and so on. Yet
the
Scriptures say take no thought for your lives and be anxious for
nothing.
Why is worry a sin? I know we consider it "only human", but worry
really
implies a lack of trust in God. It is believing a lie. Identify the lie
and
you can quickly discover the Truth. What is the lie? That God is
somehow
less than sufficient, that perhaps He will not come through for us. So
you
see, the enemy gets us to believe a lie, and then gets us to think that
we
are just being "human". So then we accept something less than the
normal
Christian life - overcoming - and think that is just the way it is.
Remember: satan has no power apart from our belief in his lie.
Overcomers are learning to bridge the gap between what they SAY they
believe
and how they really LIVE. Now we are not criticizing or judging people
for
having anxious thoughts, for we have our share of them. We have not
overcome
in this area. We simply say this is one thing to be overcome, one of
many
lies which oppose the Truth. The one that overcomes is constantly
challenging the lie of the enemy and demonstrating the preeminence of
Christ
over all things. When every lie is destroyed then the dragon is
defeated,
for it cannot control what it cannot deceive. Most of what we see and
hear
is an illusion. It is not the Truth, but a lie, a distortion. Our eyes
and
our ears cannot be trusted. We must have heavenly vision and heavenly
hearing.


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