True Religion, Part 6: Anxiety’s Antidote
Our songs have been songs of hope and trust in the living god, and we come to Matthew 6, and the Lord Jesus’ discussion of anxiety and its antidote. We’ll begin in verse 25, but you’ll notice that the first word, or therefore, points you back to the immediately preceding verses, and so these passages are tied together in thought. Matthew 6, beginning at verse 25, hear God’s word: (Matthew 6:25-34) Our Lord and our God, we know the difficulty with which we struggle with the sin of worry, we know the frequency with which we are vexed by it, and we ask Your own divine intervention. Teach us by Your Word to trust in the Savior, in your providence, in Your purposes for us. We ask, O God, that You would enlighten us by the truth of Your Word, and You would search our hearts as we…