One Good Worry

There is only one thing you need to worry about today. Does that sound too good to be true? Life is filled with so many worries! But there is really only one thing you need to worry about today.

Know what it is? Living to please God. “We instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more” (1 Thessalonians 4:1).

You don’t need to worry about food or clothes. God will provide all that you need (see Matthew 6:25-34). You don’t need to worry about guilt or forgiveness. When Jesus died on the cross, he took all your sins away (see John 1:29). You don’t need to worry about the future. God has perfectly planned out every day of the rest of your life (see Psalm 139:16). You don’t even need to worry about death, because Jesus gives eternal life to all who believe in him (John 11:25-26).

What’s left? God has your salvation all taken care of. God has your physical life all taken care of. So what’s left? You are free to focus your life on living to please God more and more. 

What if every day you wake up and think, “I want to live for God today!” What would you do? How would your life be different? Make living to please God the one thing you worry about today.

Pastor Nathan