“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?"
If we say there is a God then we may be theoretical believers but if we then worry about stuff this denies there is a God and we are practical atheists.
2 comments:
Just because I am a worrywart and an atheist, doesn't mean you need to point it out!
On a more serious note (the above, while I am in fact an atheist, was meant only as a goodnatured joke):
Is it really so, as you say? Must for a believer God always act in the way the believer wants? Is a believer always wrong to worry? C.S. Lewis was devastated by Joy's death, and worried himself sick about her illness before her death; is "letting go" always possible for a believer, or would that devolve into mere fatalism?
I think this is a very hard question, maybe I am wrong, but I see no easy answers from your angle. I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks, and I really do not see your answer being as easy as given. Please pardon me if I misunderstand the argument.
HI Gurdur
Mmm.. this post was really as a further explanation of this post
I don't much like either of them in retrospect.
However, surely worry is the opposite of peace, and one of the good things that religions do is try to encourage us to contemplate, become still, go into a building like a mosque that feels peaceful etc. In a post here I say something about the benefits of the religious life, I guess for me it is partly the peace...
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