Bryce Crawford

You don't have to be anxious.

You're putting this unnecessary pressure on yourself.

And for me, as a human being who likes to put pressure on myself, who likes to look at the mountain of issues and problems all at once, not the steps, and think, man, there's no way I can do that.

That's what God is saying.

Yeah, that's right.

You don't have to be anxious about dealing with that.

Just trust in me.

And that's why I love when we go back to verse 27, when he's like, which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his lifespan?

Jesus is saying there is absolutely no benefit whatsoever in anxiety.

Now, sometimes we can say and be like, yeah, right, Bryce, you're acting like I want to be anxious.

No, that's not why I'm saying that.

And that's not why Jesus is saying that.

He's not saying that because he thinks that you want to be anxious.

He's just letting you know like sometimes anxiety is self-inflicted.

Like sometimes we think that worrying is going to deal with it and it's not.

It doesn't.

It doesn't help.

In fact, worrying will never help.

And I love the two examples that Jesus gives about anxiety because you and I as human beings are of a different value standard in God's eyes because we're made in his image.

God created everything in beauty and splendor, animals, creation, colors, flowers, and they're great and they're valuable, but not as valuable as you and me because we're made in his image.