Friday, November 15, 2013

Careful

Don't be anxious about anything - but in everything by prayer and petition w/ thanksgiving, present your request to God.

That's the NIV version, the King James starts it:
"Be careful for nothing"

Here's "careful" defined:

  • attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious
  • thorough & painstaking in action or execution; conscientious
  • protective
  • cautious in one's actions
  • done w/ accuracy or caution
  • troubled; attend to w/ anxiety
  • painstaking effort to avoid errors
This verse has breathed new life to me today.  I've come to the end of myself this week.  And can say I know what it is like to put forth painstaking effort to avoid errors... to attend to with anxiety.   

Hope the grooveshark link top right works for you - it's a song by Vertical Church Band called The Rock Won't Move... the above verse is Philippians 4:6 and vs 7 says if we will be careful for nothing, w/ thankfulness put our requests before God... 
his peace comes
it guards
our hearts & our minds
in something rock solid... Jesus. 

Sometimes I can't decide if his word is crazy or good, or an unreplicable display of both - it for sure is freedom.

No comments:

Post a Comment