Jesus cautioned his disciples against worry. He encouraged them to instead believe in the goodness of God. We may not have an accurate picture of what “goodness” really is, us being products of this present world, with all its faults and failings.
Allow God to teach you what goodness is.
This requires us to suspend our own judgment. We need to put all of our stuff on the shelf — our opinions, our feelings, our sense of what life should look like — and soak ourselves in the presence of the Living God.
His presence is freely available to us because of Jesus, and he longs for you to enjoy it! Allow Him to saturate you. Learn from Him. Relax in Him.
God is everywhere, and God is love. A wise man once said, “God’s love is not something… God is love…He is not outside of Himself, He is not a “loving” God…He is love.” Think about that for a moment. Soak in that. Saturate yourself with that.
Before you do anything else in life, take a moment to absorb this simple truth, that the God who orchestrated the cosmos, who created matter, and who breathes life into everything, loves you just as you are…and that He paid a price that is beyond description in order that you would be able to enjoy Him.
Then stay here as you move forward. Stay here as you go there, wherever there happens to be today. Stay here in this place where you are fully aware of this love. Be fully alive in God’s goodness. Do not forget…because forgetting is easy to do, and it comes naturally to us in this world, with its distractions and its trials. This is why Jesus tells us not to worry. God is good…all the time.
