“I want you to be free from anxieties.”1Cor7.32 ESV
If the stayed mind is kept in perfect peace, then the distracted one is not. The wholeness that peace brings to us is fragmented when we allow ourselves to be pulled in many directions. Jesus used this very word, when he warned us that the cares of this world could choke out the fruitfulness of His word in our heart. What are the cares of this world? Well, Jesus described such as worries about food, money, clothing, what we call the basic necessities of life. It is not so much that these things are bad in and of themselves; it is our unhealthy preoccupation with them. Christ assures us that God knows we need these things, not to worry and be distracted by them and to stay focused instead on the Kingdom of God. When we allow the cares of this world to be elevated over the singular focus of loving God, they are no longer tools, which serve us but masters we wind up serving. Our hearts can know the unrest of being pulled in many directions or the peace of being anchored to the one thing that really matters. 5/22/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
