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What Does the Bible Say About Worry?
Jesus speaks tenderly to the worried heart: look at the birds and the flowers, and trust the Father who clothes them to care far more for you.
Worry tries to carry tomorrow's burdens with today's strength, and it cannot. Jesus does not shame the worried; He gently reasons with us, reminding us that anxious thought adds nothing but weight.
The antidote to worry is not willpower but trust. Scripture invites us to seek God's kingdom first and to leave the outcomes with the One who already knows what we need before we ask.
Key Bible verses
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Matthew 6:25-26 · King James Version (public domain)
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
Matthew 6:34 · King James Version (public domain)
“Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
Psalm 55:22 · King James Version (public domain)
“And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?”
Luke 12:25-26 · King James Version (public domain)
How this points to Jesus
Jesus carried every one of our worries to the cross so that we could be free. He knows what it is to be pressed and troubled, and He invites the weary to come to Him for rest. We can leave tomorrow in the hands that hold the universe and were pierced for us.
