Release the Dove!

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Always be glad because of the Lord! I will say it again: Be glad. Always be gentle with others. The Lord will soon be here. Don’t worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God.

Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel.
Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don’t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise.

Philippians 4:4-8

When do you worry? The answer to that is simple. You worry about something when you are uncertain of the eventual outcome. To worry about a situation means you have no assurance of where it will lead or how it will end. When you drop a rock from the top of a building you do not worry about whether or not it will hit the ground. When you release a dove from the same roof you can easily worry about where the dove will go.

So why does God not want His children to worry. As a child of God, when you worry about anything or everything you proclaim to everyone around you that you are not trusting God. That is the sin of worry.

Without Jesus in your life you would never let go of the Dove of Peace because you would have no assurance that it would ever come back to your life. With Jesus you can release the Dove of Peace and know that Jesus can control every flap of it's wings. And you can trust that it will come back at just the right time.

That's why a Christian doesn't need to fret and worry over becoming rich. He already is rich because of Jesus.

When you worry you light up the billboard of your life which says, "Jesus, today I am not going to trust You." Those billboards are all over town and sad but true you will see the faces of many followers of Jesus on them.

Today, take down all the signs that tell the world you don't trust Jesus. Trust Him with all your heart and let worry be for those who don't know the Creator of all the Universe!