God Is Not Afraid

Is the reason we don't have to be, either.

  • God created time and space, and so he is not constrained by the boundaries or limitations of the constraints you and I feel every day. Do you ever feel like you could use a 28-hour day to get everything done?

    God never feels that way.

    What does that mean to us? God isn’t held captive in a 24-hour, 365-day cycle like we are. God isn’t going to die before he reaches the ripe old age of a hundred, like most of us will.

    He already knows the future. He is in the future, waiting for you there. He is holding out his hand and hoping you will trust him with your future.

    Is God feeling fear about anything in the future? Nah. He’s got that covered, too. You are in good hands with the strongest one in the universe, galaxy, and all existence.

    In the Bible, God tells us what happens in the future.

    He already won.

    That is good news as we think about what will happen tomorrow.

    Matthew 6:25-34

    “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 than food, and the body more 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

    “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers 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, oh 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.”