Matthew 6:24–34
What makes you feel safe? How much money would need to be in the bank before you could finally relax? What would the doctor need to say? What would need to change in your family? What would tomorrow have to look like before you could finally say, “Everything is going to be okay”?
In this sermon on Matthew 6:24–34, Pastor Rojas reflects on Jesus’ words about worry, little faith, the birds of the air, and the lilies of the field. Why does Jesus connect anxiety with “little faith”? Can you believe in God and still struggle to trust Him? Can your faith feel strong while your heart is quietly depending on something else for peace?
What does your worry reveal about what you actually trust? What has to happen before your heart can rest? Why does Jesus tell anxious people to look at birds and study flowers? Why does He remind His disciples that their heavenly Father already knows what they need?
And what does Jesus mean when He says to “seek first the kingdom of God”? Why does He describe food, clothing, money, and security as things that will simply be “added”? What happens when those added things become the main things? And what happens when good gifts from God quietly become the things we depend on to feel safe?
Can you plan without trusting your plan? Save without trusting your savings? Seek treatment without making good test results the source of your peace? What does strong faith actually look like when life feels uncertain?
This sermon examines worry as a diagnostic of faith, the difference between believing in God and trusting God, and the deeper question underneath so much of our anxiety: What do you need to feel safe?
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