The Trust Fund

The passage is there in full
along with space for notes. Worry has been called the national
pastime of humanity, not just of America, but of humanity. It seems that that is what people
are most given to most. prone to stumble into worry. Worry about a future they can’t
see. Worry about a present they can’t
control. Worry about a past that is long
since past. One could almost, based on what
I was just able to discover through just a week’s worth of digging,
one could almost compile a new book of Proverbs with the little
sayings that are out there, all focused on God’s concern for
worry, on this sin of worry. Some of them ran along the lines
of almost humorous comments. Some were much more serious and
point to the sinful character of worry. Here are just a few. One said, worry is like a rocking
chair. It will give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.
That’s true. I mean, it does tend to occupy
our minds, doesn’t it? Another early American pastor
said it this way, there are two days in the week about which
and upon which I never worry. This pastor had it correct when
he said two carefree days kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday
and the other is tomorrow. Another person said it this way,
worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision. We’ve
been saying about God taking away this fear that we’re so
prone to. A Swedish proverb went like this,
worry gives a small thing a big shadow. Isn’t that an accurate
description? We don’t even really have all
the facts. We don’t even really know what tomorrow holds, but
the shadow is grand. Another more proverbial saying
went like this, blessed, oh, how very happy. Blessed is the
person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy
to worry at night. That’s good, because that means
we’re really about doing something to affect what we should be doing. My favorite, though, of all these
little sayings was the definition of worry. Duress rehearsal. Spelled D-U-R-E-S-S. Duress rehearsal. And, you know,
really some of them we tend to take as tongue in cheek, but
really at the heart of it We’re all guilty of this. We all struggle
with worry. We all struggle with trying to
control that which we can’t. We all struggle with trying to
wonder and craft the future and re-craft the past. And I really
believe in my heart of hearts, in this passage, Jesus had in
view some of the most worrisome men that the planet has ever
born. Jesus knew their hearts. Jesus
knew that they were timid. Jesus knew that they were just
like us. And really, from the very start
of chapter 12, verse one, Jesus has been trying to encourage
these followers of his. When we began chapter one, Or
chapter 12, verse one, we looked there at the folly, the foolishness
of the fear of men. Jesus was trying to encourage
them here. He had been invited into the
Pharisees home. The Pharisees, as it were, tried
to lynch him verbally. And instead of succumbing to
their arguments, Jesus went on the offensive and Jesus went
after the Pharisees in their hypocrisy and subsequently went
after the scribes as well. And as he came out of the house
with a large crowd gathered, he sought to encourage his own
followers. Don’t be afraid of them. Don’t
be afraid of them. We saw several weeks ago that
the practical fear of man is rebuked by God. It’s rebuked
by the fact that God’s truth ultimately will prevail. These
hypocrites will be found out. And God’s truth will overcome. We found out there that God’s
authority is supreme, that these had nothing to worry about because
ultimately God is the one that can not only put to death the
body, but the soul. God is the one that they really
needed to fear. Thirdly, God’s opinion is paramount. Here we are. And this is this
is so right where we are. Here they were worried about
what the Pharisees might think and trying to cater their lives.
And we saw that this is our sin. This is what we struggle with. When ultimately, the only opinion
that really matters is God. We have nobody to fear on this
land. The only one that we need to
please is God himself. And suddenly, in the midst of
this grand sermon, as we saw last week, somebody gets the
mind or lost his mind and found his voice and uttered this audible
cry, Jesus, help me negotiate my settlement with my brother.
Fix this will that has been transgressed by my brother. Help me to get
my fair share, my portion of what was left to the family.
And Jesus sees his hold on this rude interruption of sacred words
flowing from Jesus mouth, Jesus uses it as an opportunity for
his people on a lesson on greed. We saw it last week and we saw
that three sins come from that spiritually impoverished life. We saw, first of all, that it
was haughtiness that God saw was so prevalent in a greedy
man, just an arrogant lifestyle, one that doesn’t need God. Secondly,
the hoarding that naturally comes from that because there’s never
enough. And finally, the hedonism where it’s all about me and all
of life is spent on caring for me and my wants and my needs
and my enjoyment of life. And it’s in that context, in
that specific context that these words fit. In fact, these words
by many are considered just a further elucidation of those words already
given in the parable of the rich fool. Jesus here just wants to
cement in the minds of his disciples that worry and fear and greed. They’re all in the same camp.
All of those things are in the same camp, and really what can
be said of the rich man flows right out of the context of this
passage. Pick up with me, if you would,
in verse 22. We’re immediately following those
words about the rich man. Jesus said to His disciples,
for this reason, I say to you, do not worry about your life
as to what you will eat, nor for your body as to what you
will put on. For life is more than food and the body more than
clothing. Consider the ravens. For they
neither sow nor reap. They have no storeroom nor barn,
and yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you
than the birds? And which of you, by worrying,
can add a single hour to his lifespan? If then you cannot
do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other
matters? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil
nor spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon
in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God
so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow
is thrown into the furnace. How much more will he clothe
you, O men of little faith? Jesus knew their hearts. Jesus
knew that these men were cowering about the future. You remember,
not any of these were really wealthy men, perhaps save Matthew. They weren’t wealthy men, fishermen
by and large, by trade. And now they had even left that
behind, even leaving their equipment. They would return for a brief
time, but generally speaking, they had left it behind and they
were purposing to press on in the ministry. And no wonder they
were fearful. They had left all their earthly
goods behind. They were worried. We would be
worried. Essentially, what Jesus says
here is that not only is covetousness sin, that’s what we dealt with
last week, that greed, that hoarding, the hedonism that comes from
it. All born out of the haughtiness of thinking that you’re the master
of your destiny. But not only are haughtiness
and hoarding and covetousness are those sins, but worry is
a sin. And Jesus puts that on the same
plane. He says that’s every bit as sinful
as what that rich fool did. In fact, even the mention of
sowing and reaping in the storehouse in this barn points us directly
back to that parable, doesn’t it? Fits perfectly in the context. Have you entitled the message,
the trust fund? Trust fund is an interesting
thing. It means that somewhere upstream, upline in the pyramid,
you call your family. Somebody had some bucks, right? And they left it to you, but
they wanted to kind of guide it and craft it so that you don’t
go through it all in a week’s time. And so it’s called a trust
fund. And some they’re they’re tailored
many different ways. Some trickle the money out slowly
and some, you know, happen on your 18th birthday. And there’s
all kinds of different ways. But if you’ve ever met somebody
who is living in view of a trust fund. The thing is like a ticking
time bomb, right? It’s like they’ve already won
the lottery. All they’ve got to do, it’s just
a matter of time before they go cash the check. And it gives them great confidence.
They live how they want to live. They spend like there’s no tomorrow.
And I’m not minimizing a trust fund. If you know anybody that
wants to put me on one, that’s just fine by me. What we need to remember is that
we have the real fund, the fund of all funds. We have the God
of all gods who has all the resources in the world. And all he asks
us to do is trust him. That’s a real trust fund. Trust
him. Have faith, don’t worry. What he’s going to do in this
passage, the way I’ve chopped it up for us this morning, is
give us three encouragements. Three encouragements to God’s
providence, but I want you to go back to verse 22 first. Where there, Jesus said to his
disciples, and I believe now Jesus begins to rally the troops,
perhaps a more intimate group. Remember, there was a large crowd
gathered around the Pharisees. Around the Pharisees home, there
was an exceedingly large crowd so that they were stepping on
one another. And then it says at the beginning of chapter 12
that Jesus kind of downsized the group and began to speak
more intimately. And then, in the parable, began
to speak even more intimately. And I believe even here, too,
it just seems to be a much more intimate setting as Jesus looks
around and He said to His disciples, for this reason I say to you,
do not worry about your life. Don’t worry. What He had just
concluded saying was that for somebody who takes great care
for earthly things and is impoverished in their soul, he is not rich
towards God. That’s the real concern. That’s
where our worry should be. We’re not supposed to worry about
our life, we’re supposed to worry about our soul. I think I’ve
said this before, but it just amazes me. It just is amazing
to me to see the health food industry and the vitamin industry
and all that just boom. And to meet people, members of
my own family, not my immediate family, who are so concerned
about vitamins and their physical health and so completely oblivious
to their spiritual condition, careless. It’s amazing. The word is an interesting word,
don’t worry. It literally means don’t think. Don’t take no thought. Don’t think about it. And in the 16th century, when
the King James was translated, that would have been enough because
to think on things was to meditate and mull on it and become all
preoccupied in those things. What it refers to is anxious
thought, anxiously careful about the things of earth. Paul used it in a similar way
in first Corinthians 732. He said, I want you to be free
from concern, free from thought about those things. The word
sometimes expresses a good feeling of concern, intense interest
about something when it’s directed towards even proper objects.
We should be concerned about our families. We should be concerned
about our country, our nation. We should be concerned about
various things when that concern is kept within proper bounds.
But when the feeling becomes misdirected, that’s when it becomes
sinful, when it when the feeling exists in greater measure than
it should, when more time is spent on that than on action,
then it begins, as one said, to eat like acid into the soul. especially when it comes from
a feeling of a lack of trust in God. We begin to doubt God’s
ability. We begin to doubt God’s willingness. In other words, we shouldn’t
live and act and carry on as if our possessions, as if money
or things were the be-all end-all of life. People can be as unfaithful to
God through care and concern, through thinking, just as they
can in greed. Ultimately, what he’s trying
to say here is that we are to rely on God, not on our ability
to make money. And it reminds us of Philippians
4, 6, doesn’t it? Be anxious for nothing. I mean, isn’t Scripture just
simple? If you take that little thing
apart, I mean, it just it solves all your problems. Be anxious. For nothing. Nothing. I just
lost my job. Nothing. To be anxious. It’s unreasonable to be anxious,
God’s Word says, especially about things that we can’t control.
He’s not talking about reasonable, responsible care about things.
But He says, be anxious for nothing, but in everything. Everything?
Everything. By prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God. In other
words, he doesn’t just leave us hang out to dry. He doesn’t
say, don’t worry, be happy, that’s the counsel of the world. Pray, seek God. Psalm 52, 55 says this way, cast
your burden on the Lord. He will sustain you. He will
never allow the righteous to be shaken. Isn’t that good counsel
for worrisome people like us? First Peter 5 7. You begin to
get when you see the scope of this, that almost in every corner
of Scripture, there is this sin called worry and there is this
admonition not to worry from one end of Scripture to another.
It’s there. First Peter 5 7 cast all your anxiety on him because
he cares for you. Don’t go carrying your anxiety
on your own. You’re not going to get very
far with it. It won’t do you any good, as we’ll see in a moment.
One Puritan said it this way, nothing is more common than a
careful and troubled spirit. Isn’t it true? You meet people,
it’s almost it’s not whether they’re worrying and mulling
over something. It’s what? How much? Nothing
is more common than a careful and troubled spirit and nothing
so Mars, a believer’s usefulness and diminishes his inward peace. Don’t we know that to be true?
Nothing, on the contrary, glorifies God so much as a cheerful spirit
in the midst of temporal troubles. It carries a reality with it,
which even the worldly can understand. It commends our Christianity
and makes it beautiful in the eyes of men. There’s your witness.
You don’t even have to have words. You don’t have to go through
the gospel proclamation class to do that. Just trust God and
live like it. And there’s your witness. Bottom line point to all these
words is that if God gave us our lives, won’t He give us what we need
to sustain it? See, this is where the rich fool
was wrong. He was poor towards God. He didn’t
trust God. No wonder he had to build barns.
And then when he got more grain, when God blessed his harvest,
no wonder he had to go build bigger barns because he didn’t
trust God for the future. You didn’t trust God. Jesus said,
don’t worry about your life as to what you will eat, nor for
your body as to what you will put on, for life is more than
food and the body more than clothing. Trust God. Step out in faith. Trust that He will provide. I
told you I wanted to give you three, and I believe the passage
here gives us three encouragements to confidence. In God’s providence,
three encouragements to confidence in God’s providence. First of
all, faith in God’s providence is encouraged by God’s certain
care. His certain care for our sustenance. Let’s pause there for a moment,
look at verse 24 where he says, consider the ravens. Check that. Instead of ravens, we might as
well put down the nasty scavenger birds that just eat everything,
including roadkill. Because that’s what he’s talking
about. Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap.
And sowing and reaping can’t possibly be a sin. But the ravens
don’t even do that. One might even point the finger
at them as scavengers that they’re lazy birds, but there are no
birds that sow or reap, at least not knowingly. They have no storeroom
or barn. You don’t see a bird flying with
beakfuls of worms to the nest to store them away and squirrel
them away for winter. What good would a hard worm be
in the dead of winter? Consider the ravens. They neither
sow nor reap. They have no storeroom nor barn.
Yet, God feeds them. It’s an amazing thing that the
ravens are able to be sustained. You look around. That’s exactly
what Jesus wants us to do. Stand back and look at nature.
And even the birds, the robins that come out in the spring,
the sparrows that are here all winter long, somehow God feeds
them. I mean, we have a bird feeder.
We help the process. And after we’re going through
almost two pounds of bird seed, you know, you fill it up. Three
days later, it’s empty again. You wonder how on earth did the
birds eat before that? I don’t know. But God fed them.
He doesn’t even need me to help them. He closes with this. How much
more valuable are you than birds? It’s exactly what He wants us
to see. He wants us to pause and look and say that, you know,
look, God made the birds. God’s caring for the birds. Won’t
He care for us? These ravens, they were just
birds. They didn’t know anything about
farming. But on top of it all, these ravens were even considered
unclean. Listen to Leviticus. Moreover, you shall detest among
the birds. They are abhorrent, not to be
eaten. The eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, the kite, the falcon,
every raven in its kind. Disgusting birds. Roadkill eating
birds. If a chariot was going down the
road and it hit an animal, there’s the food for the ravens. And
yet the astounding thing is that even these disgusting birds are
mentioned in Scripture as God’s or as objects of God’s care,
objects of God’s care. Psalm 147. He gives food to the
beast and to the young ravens which cry. God feeds them. It’s amazing that God is even
concerned about these kinds of things. Job 38, Job 38, 41, who prepares
for the raven its nourishment? It isn’t us. When it’s young, cry out to God
and wander about for food. It’s God, it’s always God, it’s
God in every corner of Scripture that is declared to be the one
that feeds even the most minute and insignificant of creatures. Some 145 says, the eyes of all
look to you and you give them their food in due time. Everything
looks to God and God feeds everything. The birds aren’t hard workers.
They’re not faithful in the field. They just go and gather up whatever
they’re able to put their beaks on and they take it home and
they eat it. You know what God says here? He says, pause and
look. Haven’t I done this? You look
back to Genesis one. You know what? God made the food.
He made the cattle. He made the grass, the plants,
the flowering trees, the fruited trees. He made all that before
he even made people. God did it all before we even
came. As a lesson to Israel, God provided
the manna in the wilderness. As a lesson to his wayward apostles,
God provided them a fish catch and fish for breakfast like they’d
never seen. God is able. Psalm 104 proclaims
it so clearly. And what it calls us to is a
thankful life. A life of gratitude for what
we do have so that we don’t forget God’s providence, so that we
don’t forget that God is able to provide and sustain. A.W. Tozer said it this way a long
time ago, as a cure for the sour, fault finding attitude, I recommend
the cultivation of the habit of thankfulness. Instead of being
worried about what you don’t have or worried about what the
future may not provide, what we’re called to do is be thankful
right here in the moment for what we do have, for what he
has provided. He goes on and says, Thanksgiving
has great curative power, the heart that is constantly overflowing
with gratitude will be safe from the attacks of resentfulness
and gloom that bother so many people. A thankful heart cannot
be cynical. And so thankfulness, what he
considers is a moral therapeutic. It fixes our heart, it corrects
our thinking. So Psalm 104 opens and essentially,
as I’ve called it before, it is a song of the providence of
God, and first it opens with a statement about God, the God
of creation, and it tells all about Him. all about this God
who made the world. And then it goes on to talk about
all about His creation. And you know what? God could
have ended it right there. But that wasn’t the purpose of
Psalm 104 to talk about God and God and His creation, because
what Psalm 104 goes on to say is the providence of God, the
sustenance of God’s creation, the preservation of God’s creation. Listen to verse 10 of Psalm 104. He sends forth springs in the
valleys. They flow between the mountains.
They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys
quench their thirst. Beside them, the birds of the
heavens dwell. They lift up their voices among
the branches. He waters the mountains from
his upper chambers.” And you get the image, whatever a spring
doesn’t water, the rains do. Ultimately, what happens there
in Psalm 104, verse 13, you get the thesis of the whole psalm.
This is the point. The earth is satisfied with the
fruit of his works. That’s how the whole thing goes.
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, vegetation for the
labor of man, so that he may bring forth food from the earth,
and wine which makes man’s heart glad, so that he may make his
face glisten with oil, and food which sustains his heart.” It’s
all God. It’s all God working through
the process. I even talked to a farmer one
time. We pastored in two farm communities. And what you talk
about people that are in touch with the providence of God. He
said, all I do is plant the seeds. I plant the seeds and then I
begin to pray. That’s all I can do. And if God sends the rain
and God cultivates the soil and God causes the whole process
of germination to take place and ultimately growth of the
plant and continued watering and continued nourishment, it’s
about all that a farmer can do. It’s all God. God has promised to care for
us. He’s provided in so many abundant ways. So that worry
becomes for us a sin. When we doubt God’s ability to
provide for us, when all of Scripture proclaims that that is his job,
it’s his job. There’s a second encouragement
here to confidence in God’s providence. Faith in God’s providence is
encouraged not only by God’s certain care for our sustenance,
but secondly, God’s absolute sovereignty over our lives. His
absolute sovereignty over our lives, you remember, that’s what
the rich man forgot. He forgot that God is sovereign.
He forgot that all of our plans may be made in great intricacy,
but ultimately they must be submitted to a sovereign God. And he has
to put the stamp of approval on him. He has to ratify those
plans. What seems to be said here, look
at verse 25, which of you by worrying can add a single hour
to his lifespan? Technically speaking, the word
hour isn’t in the text. It’s cubit. It’s a measurement.
And because of that, people have wondered for years, which of
you by worrying can make yourself grow taller? When that isn’t
the point of the passage, as we’ll see in a moment. This isn’t
the only passage that speaks metaphorically of lengthening
your life by increasing your stature. Psalm 39 forces it this
way. Lord, make me know my end. And
what is the extent of my days? Let me know how transient I am. Help me to remember that I live
before a sovereign God that knows the moment that I’m finished
on Earth, the moment. And then listen, behold, you
have made my days as hand breaths, a measurement. And my lifetime
is nothing in your sight. Surely every man at his best
is a mere breath. Surely every man walks about
as a phantom, a ghost. Surely they make an uproar for
nothing. He amasses riches and does not know who will gather
them.” See, this is what the rich man forgot. He forgot that
his lifespan was measured out from point A to point B. Which one of us? by worrying
can add a single measurement, whether it be a foot or a yard
or even an inch, which one of us by worrying can add a single
measurement to our life’s span? The answer is none. None of us. The irony here is that we can
worry ourselves literally to death. through ulcers and all
the stress that it does to the to the physical system, the heart. But we can’t worry ourselves
to life. Isn’t that an irony that is given there so plainly
in Scripture? All the worry in the world doesn’t
produce a thing. It doesn’t help at all. In fact,
if anything, it hurts. It’s strange, then. Strange then
from time to time you hear somebody who’s been critically injured
and you hear that he’s fighting for his life, right? Somehow
in God’s good providence he survives and you know what they say? It’s
because he was a fighter. He’s a fighter. As if we can will
ourselves out of a hospital bed. Jesus says you can’t add a minute.
You can’t by worrying add a minute to your life. God is sovereign. He has the
very moment of our earthly demise. A.W. Pink spoke of God’s sovereignty
in glowing terms when he said, divine sovereignty is not the
sovereignty of a tyrannical despot, but the exercised pleasure of
one who is infinitely wise and good. Because God is infinitely
wise, he cannot err. And because he is infinitely
righteous, he will do no wrong. Here then is the preciousness
of this truth. The mere fact itself that God’s
will is irresistible and irreversible fills me with fear. But once
I realize that God wills only that which is good, my heart
is made to rejoice. My question to you is, are you
rejoicing in the fact that God is sovereign? Are you rejoicing
in the fact that by worrying, we can’t add a single moment
to our life? And if we can’t, Jesus says in
verse 26, if we can’t even do a little thing like that, if
we can’t even will ourselves another minute of life, a little
thing, why worry about the other matters? Why worry? The rich fool had missed that
lesson. The rich fool’s whole life was
bound up in worry. And he thought that he had to
prepare For his own future, because there was no God to prepare for
him. No wonder he had to try to take matters into his own
hand. There’s a third. Encouragement,
faith in God’s providence is encouraged not only by God’s
certain care of our sustenance and by God’s absolute sovereignty
over our lives, but thirdly, by God’s assured provision for
our needs. Look at verse 27, where he wants
us to go back on our nature walk. We’ve already gone and looked
at the birds. And this was so often the way Jesus worked. Takes us back, as it were, out
into a field, not into the garden, not into the arboretum, but out into a field. And he
said, consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil
nor spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon
in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Perhaps if you want, this one
is one for the ladies. They stood at their closet this
morning wondering which thing, what outfit to wear. But really,
truthfully, this is for all of us. We worry. When our favorite shirt
wears out, you know, we worry about, you know, where will the
next one come from? But here, Jesus says, look at
the flowers, where you go and these aren’t just these aren’t
cultivated flowers, these aren’t this isn’t a garden. This is
God’s garden called the field. And you look out on the field
and there are these flowers that nobody planted, that God waters,
that God planted, that God cares for. These flowers don’t toil. They don’t work. They don’t work
to put together some kind of coloring for their petals. They
don’t spin when it says they don’t spin, they don’t make themselves
fancy garments of clothes. There isn’t human care bestowed
on them. That’s the implication of this whole passage. These
are not garden flowers. They’re wildflowers. Years ago, After some trip to
the high country, I think we were even in Rocky Mountain National
Park, went into the shop and there was a package of genuine,
certified, guaranteed Colorado wildflowers. Bought a packet
myself. Brought them home, planted it. I was going to have the finest
Colorado wildflower garden there was. Planted them, began to water
them. A few things came up. You see, the best we can do is
foul things up. And here were flowers that God
has no problem growing in much harsher conditions, doesn’t cultivate
the soil, doesn’t stand over them with a watering wand, cultivating
the flowers. And yet they grow. And God does
a much better job than we do. In fact, he says, look at the
illustration, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself
like one of these. Solomon, as we’ve been studying
in Sunday school, was one of the wealthiest kings the world’s
ever known. Listen to this description of
Solomon from the Song of Solomon. What is this coming up from the
wilderness, like columns of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all scented powders of the merchant? Behold, it is the traveling
couch of Solomon, 60 men around it of the mighty men of Israel.
All of them are wielders of the sword, expert in war. Every man
has his sword at his side, guarding against the terrors of the night.
King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair from the timber
of Lebanon. He made it posts of silver, black,
its back of gold, its seat of purple fabric with its interior
lovingly fitted by the daughters of Jerusalem. Go forth, O daughters
of Zion, and gaze on King Solomon with the crown with which his
mother crowned him. on the day of his wedding and
the day of the gladness of his heart. That’s the image that
Jesus says he wants you to grasp. Look at King Solomon. And all
that that pomp. And all the ornate things thrown
at him are nothing. Compared to one of God’s gardens,
the God plants and God waters. And the implication is there
Won’t God care for you? Look at what he says about the
grass, it’s alive today and tomorrow, it’s thrown into the furnace.
So often what they would do in these fields is gather up the
grass when the withering heat of summer had dried it and use
it as kindling. And here God has adorned these
fields so magnificently with the wildflowers, and he says,
how can you not think? How can you doubt God’s goodness
and God’s providence? The rich fool forgot it. Have
we? Have we forgotten that God is
willing and able to provide for our needs? Have we forgotten
that He’s sovereign over our lives and that all of our planning
does not nullify God? Have we forgotten God’s care?
God’s promised care for our sustenance? Let’s examine our hearts before
Him, the great Giver. Let’s pray. Gracious God, O God,
we acknowledge that we do worry. We fall to this sin so willingly. We’re so prone to worry about
the future and worry how you might provide. Lord, forgive
us for that. Father, we do pray that You would
help us to have great confidence in You. Confidence regardless
of what You give and provide. Help us to be as faithful in
those lean times as we are in times of great abundance. Father,
be glorified in that. We thank You and we praise You
in Jesus’ name, Amen. of the club.