"Be careful for nothing.” So admonishes the Apostle to the Philippian Christians. One need not change this so-called archaic word to understand it, but simply reverse it. Thus we find that we should not be full of care about anything. As difficult as it may sound to some of us habitual worry-warts, anxiety is not an acceptable life-style for a believer.
Many of us are concerned why we do not manifest more of the Spirit’s fruit in our daily lives. Our Lord gives us the reason for this barrenness. He tells us, “…the cares of this world…choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.” I would not say the following had I not our text to validate such a statement. Worry weakens the Word; it gets a strangle hold on it, and then cuts off its celestial, life-giving oxygen to us.
The devil will pile care after care upon us, if we allow him, sinking us in a sea of despair and hopelessness. David gave us the cure for care when he said, “Trust in the Lord at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him.” Therefore, I’m required during those times in my life when care is the predominate fact, to immediately prioritize. That is, at any given moment of my life when worry plagues me, my first responsibility is to, “…trust in the living God,” and to cast all my cares upon Him.
We are to never let the cares of this world usurp the place of trusting in God!
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