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Help for daily living
Anxious or worried
Do not store up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves
break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break
in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also.
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole
body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole
body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is
darkness, how great is that darkness!
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love
the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and Money.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will
eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life
more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away
in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much
more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single
hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field
grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even
Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that
is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you,
O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, `What shall we eat?'
or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' For the pagans
run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all
these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry
about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
enough trouble of its own.
(Matthew 6:19-34 NIV)
The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun will not smite you by day, Nor the moon by night.
The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.
(Psalm 121:5-8 NASB))
Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Thy presence?
If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
Even there Thy hand will lead me,
And Thy right hand will lay hold of me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,"
Even the darkness is not dark to Thee,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to Thee.
(Psalm 139:7-12 NASB) |