When God's Child Worries 4

When God's Child Worries

Part 4 - We cannot do everything for everybody, but God can

Jesus wants us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and mind. Therefore, we must love God with all, not some, but all of our heart, soul, and mind. This means that everything you do in this world should start with our Father, God; be centered around our Father, God; and end with our Father, God, because Jesus said so, and everything Jesus says is the will of God.

You will quickly realize that you cannot do everything for everybody; only God can. So what should you do when God prompts you in your spirit to do something for Him? First, pray to God and allow Him to reveal His request and answer in His Word before acting on any request. God will not ask you to do more than you can, but your neighbor may.

Jesus wants us to love our neighbor. This means that anyone you come into contact with should be an opportunity for you to bring glory to God with the things you do in love toward that person/s in the Name of Jesus. That is, with the authority of Jesus. So what happens if a family member or neighbor asks you to do something you may or may not want to do? Let your yes be yes, and your no, no (Matthew 5:37).

Scripture Passages

Matthew 22:34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 14:7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” 8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

Colossians 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Matthew 5:34 But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. 36 Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. 37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.