Don't Worry * A Christian post/Bible Verse*

[Beautiful31mom]

[kidlover2]

Beautiful... just be warned that what your "needs" are, may be completely different than God's.

[Beautiful31mom]

Quoting kidlover2:

Beautiful... just be warned that what your "needs" are, may be completely different than God's.

I agree, sometimes God has other plans. 

[autum713]

God bless us all :)

[Beautiful31mom]

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[Clairwil]

The ethics of Jesus are apocalyptic.

Jesus is reported to have believed and taught that the world as
people then knew it was coming to an end; he was an apocalyptic
preacher.  Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13, Luke chapter 21, all
speak of an apocalyptic end time, with earthquakes, famines, wars,
with false prophets and religious persecutions, with mass deaths and
turmoil.  He stresses that no one knows when this will happen, so we
should keep ourselves ready at all times.  In Matthew, Mark, and Luke
he says "This generation will not pass away till all these things
take place." Though he says no one knows the day and hour, he
apparently thinks it will be "soon", within the lifetime of those
hearing him speak.  In Matthew 10:23 he says:
"When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I
say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel,
before the Son of man comes."

Given that he thought the world was ending, the Day of Judgement was
coming when all would be sorted into the saved and the damned, going
to Heaven or Hell respectively (Matt. 25:31-46), it makes perfect
sense that his ethics were utterly unworldly, radically unworldly.  He
put no value on earthly wealth, fame, power, or family.  He urged his
followers to forsake all of these to focus entirely on purifying
their own character, doing good works, and spreading the gospel.  You
are not seeking to have a pleasant or successful life on Earth, you
are applying to get into Heaven when the Earth is destroyed.

In Matthew chapter 16 for example he says
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me,
let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  25 For
whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life
for my sake will find it.  26 For what will it profit a man, if he
gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give
in return for his life? 27 For the Son of man is to come with his
angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man
for what he has done.  28 Truly, I say to you, there are some standing
here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming
in his kingdom."
This passage is repeated in Mark chapter 8.  An even more clearly
unworldly teaching is Luke 14:26-33,
26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and
mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even
his own life, he cannot be my disciple.  27 Whoever does not bear his
own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.  28 For which of
you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the
cost, whether he has enough to complete it? ...  33 So therefore,
whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Regarding wealth, for example, he says not to accumulate any.  (Matt.
6) 19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth
and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
24 "No one can serve two masters; for 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 God and mammon.  25 "Therefore I tell you, do
not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall
drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on.  Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothing?

If you have already accumulated some wealth, Jesus says to get rid of
it.  In Luke chapter 18 (and Matt. 19, and Mark 10) a rich man asks
Jesus:
18 And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit
eternal life?" 19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No
one is good but God alone.  20 You know the commandments: `Do not
commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false
witness, Honor your father and mother.'" 21 And he said, "All these I
have observed from my youth." 22 And when Jesus heard it, he said to
him, "One thing you still lack.  Sell all that you have and distribute
to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow
me." 23 But when he heard this he became sad, for he was very rich.
24 Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have
riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of God."

In Matthew 13:44-46 he again talks of selling all that you have; the
kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, or like a
pearl of great price, and the wise man sells all that he has to buy it.

In Matthew 5 and Luke 6 he says to give extra to those who steal from
you, give to all who beg from you, lend without expecting repayment.
In Luke 12 he says to beware all covetousness, "sell your possessions
and give alms", to provide yourself with treasure in Heaven.  In Luke
14, "when you give a feast, do not invite the rich, lest they invite
you in return, and you be repaid.  But invite the poor, the maimed,
the blind, and you will be blessed, for they cannot repay you.  You
will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

This is a repeating theme, that you should do good works without
expecting any return, in fact you should take care to avoid getting
any return.  If you receive any reward here on Earth, you will not
receive reward in Heaven.  This is apparently HOW you lay up treasures
in Heaven: do things worthy of reward, and DO NOT TAKE THE REWARD
HERE ON EARTH.  A just God will see that you get what you deserve; if
you haven't gotten any reward on Earth, he will reward you in Heaven.

(source)

[Clairwil]

Quoting Beautiful31mom:

Don't worry about anything;

This is bad advice.

Yes, too much worry can be a bad thing.  Unproductive, and causes stress.

But a certain amount of worry is often justified.  There's a good evolutionary reason why our brains are constructed to include a worry mechanism.   There's an evolutionary advantage to double checking and keeping looking for solutions to situations which seem dead end and are having negative consequences.

Like a dog worrying at a bone, sometimes persistence pays off.

[Clairwil]

Quoting kidlover2:

Beautiful... just be warned that what your "needs" are, may be completely different than God's.

Such as a woman's need not to get raped, if she stops worrying about the stranger following her?

[couponluv72]

very nice

[kidlover2]

Are you dissing what I am saying or the verse? Because if it's me, you have no idea what I've been through. God never promises perfection here on earth. In fact he clearly says we will suffer. I don't know the mind of God. He rarely, if ever makes sense to me. Btw.... I've been raped, my husband cheated on me, I lost all of my belongings in a flood.... I never ever said life was easy or fair.

Quoting Clairwil:

Quoting kidlover2:

Beautiful... just be warned that what your "needs" are, may be completely different than God's.

Such as a woman's need not to get raped, if she stops worrying about the stranger following her?

[Beautiful31mom]

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