Worry is a Work -- Rest in His Finished Work

"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" (Matthew 6: 27)

There is no point to worrying. We worry because we think that we are called to take care of something, or anything.

Yet God gave us His own Son to die for our sins. Do we really think that anything else in our lives is a greater burden, or worth more to God, than His own Son?

This is why Peter told us to humble ourselves, that we may cast all our cares upon Him who cares for us (1 Peter 5: 6-7).

It takes great humility, seeing that we bring nothing, that Christ Jesus has done everything, and that we are called to enter into His sabbath rest:

"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

"For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

"Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Hebrews 4: 9-11)

It is unbelief, that we refuse to see what God has already done, which manifests as we take it by faith, for faith is the substance of things unseen (Hebrews 11: 1)


Peter commended his readers that they believed on Him, though they did not see Him:

"Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" (1 Peter 1: 8)

Why do we rejoice? Because He loved us first (1 John 4: 19) at the Cross (1 John 4: 10), and through this love we are transformed from dead in our trespasses (Ephesians 2: 1) to sons in Christ (1 John 4: 17).

Why worry, then, since every work has been finished for us:

"For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world." (Hebrews 4: 3)

Let us take God at His Word, believe that He has everything set out for us, and receive by faith what He so freely gives!