We'll turn with me to Luke chapter 12. We're going to continue our study in this great book. Luke chapter 12. I'm going to read verses 22 to 34. I doubt we'll get through it all, but we'll get through some of it. If you're able to stand, stand with me for the reading of God's word. This is Luke chapter 12, beginning in verse 22. Just a reminder of what we looked at last week, that Jesus is instructing his men concerning greed and the desire for possessions, and he gives them a parable concerning a rich man who made larger barns for his growth, thinking that would bring security, as we often think of our stuff and our possessions. And the Lord calls him home and says, hey, this is foolishness. You're going to die and you don't take any of it with you. And so Jesus used that as an admonition. to be rich towards God and not stuff. And then he says this, hear the word of the Lord. And he said to his disciples, for this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life as to what you will eat nor for your body as to what you will put on. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap. They have no storeroom nor barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds! And which of you, by worrying, can add a single cubit to his lifespan? Therefore, if you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon, in all his glory, clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass and the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith? And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink. Do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek. But your father knows that you need these things. But seek his kingdom. These things will be added to you. Do not fear, little flock, for your father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give it as charity. Make yourselves money belts which do not wear out. An unfailing treasure in heaven where no thief comes near nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Here ends the reading of God's inerrant word. You can be seated. The American Psychiatric Association's annual mental health poll shows that U.S. adults are feeling increasingly anxious. In 2002, 32% of adults said that they felt more anxious than they did the previous year. The next year in 2023, 37% said the same thing. So there was an increase. And then just recently in 2024, 43% of adults say they feel more anxious than they did the previous year. It turns out that Americans are anxious. In fact, America leads the rest of the world in terms of worry and anxiety. And it is amazing and ironic that while ours is perhaps the most affluent and indulged and comfortable society to ever live in history, it is also the most stressed out. It is also the most worried, filled, and anxious. What kinds of things are we anxious about? Probably some of the very things that you walked in here this morning feeling a little anxious about, right? According to this poll, the economy, inflation, an impending recession is among the top fears of Americans. The political climate is another one that is cause for fear as one regime, one group with ideas and thoughts comes in. And they're very different than the ones of the previous administration. And so fear, worry, anxiety, it grips us. Making the list, gun violence. Personal safety, I would imagine this week that everyone is a little more concerned about who is part of the FAA. Right? And what about that flight I have next week? A little bit more concern and worry. Personal health concerns. These are all things that top the list of what Americans are most fearful of. To be sure, there is a level of healthy concern that we all have. It serves as a motivation for us. It's probably what causes you to get up at five in the morning to go to work, or even earlier if you need to. There is a concern like, hey, I've got to pay the bills. I've got to provide for my family, or I've got to provide for myself. And that's different. That's just a natural. concern, something that we think about. It's natural for a father and a mother to want to make sure that their offspring, their kids, are taken care of. And there's a little bit of worry that comes in there, and then maybe a sense of being anxious. But fear and our worry and concerns, if left unchecked, or they are not not carefully anchored to truth, biblical truth in particular, that kind of fear and anxiousness can cripple you. It can debilitate you. It has. It does. And so, what we must do is inform our fears. We need to inform our concerns much like the downcast psalmists, right, that we read about. You read Psalm 42 and they're preaching to themselves, right? They're, why are you downcast? Oh my soul, hope in the Lord. So we have to inform our concern. We have to inform biblically our fear and our anxious heart. We need to anchor our anxiety. Because we don't want it to sabotage our lives. We don't want it to paralyze us from truly living. And I'm not talking about truly living as in the American dream. But truly living as God has prescribed in the scriptures. He's come that we might have life and life abundantly, and I realize that includes eternal life, and that's usually what we think, but no, there is real living, true, biblical, godly living that's to be experienced right now. Right now. And much of it comes as we inform ourselves, as we see the world and things in particular, as Jesus is talking about here, that we see them within perspective. That eternity and the spiritual realities of life and eternity are all within Our view as we consider possessions, as we consider the things of this earth, as we consider our worries and our fears, you know, as parents, we have natural concerns and worries about our kids. And now that I'm moving into having adult kids, I realize that doesn't go away. I thought it did. I thought you wouldn't be as concerned about your kids. But it just changes. Those kids that have left and are living elsewhere, I still check my fine friends to see where they are. I know it annoys them. It's not because I want to control them anymore. I just want them to know they're OK, that they're safe. There's just something about a parent that wants their kids to be safe. And that's natural. Again, I don't control my kids, the older ones. I don't demand anything of them. That'd be a little weird. Hey, you need to be home at 9. We'd like that to be true, right? We'd like to have that. But that ship has sailed. They're adults, and they've got to make decisions of their own. And that concern, you know, is there. And it's parental. And I think at that level, it's not bad. It's bad when you start going above that. You know, there's actually a name for those kinds of parents that just stick around forever. They're called helicopter parents. Right? Helicopter parents. They hover over their kids. They're overly attentive. They're overly fearful of their child's experience and problems. Right? Any educator has experienced this as a teacher? Oh man, I taught for 13 years. There's a difference between a parent and a helicopter parent. Right? Because those are the ones that you are gonna have conversations with over and over and over again, right? And it's just the way that they are. And there's this overbearing concern for their kids. So again, nothing wrong with having that concern, but again, it's gotta be biblically informed, right? I know this might shock some of you, but you don't control that much. Right? You just don't. There are things that are outside of your preview. They're outside of what you can do. That's reality. And a lot of the things that Jesus even tells us here are just, yeah, that makes sense. They're just obvious, right? Jesus has been warning his men about a series of dangers in discipleship. You might remember in verse 1 of chapter 12, he warns them about the danger of hypocrisy. Watch your own life because that sin left unchecked, it spreads like gangrene and it destroys. It's like leaven. It just goes all over the place. So he warns them about hypocrisy and he says, Everything is in front of God's eyes. There's no sense in lying or being deceptive. Because He knows. And He's going to call into question. He's going to call into judgment. All of those things. So, be on guard against hypocrisy. He then tells them to be on guard against every form of greed. Because greed also is not a good recipe for following the Lord. It's not a good recipe for discipleship, at least not the kind that Jesus is talking about. Greed would cause you to covet other people's possessions. You might look at their life and think, man, they have it so easy. Greed that would keep you from seeing God as the giver of all good gifts. Greed that would have you so concerned with your earthly goods, your earthly possessions, that you become stingy, that you never got past that time of being a toddler where they, mine, this is mine. Right? That's an unhealthy and unbiblical way of viewing our stuff. And now Jesus turns his sight with still that theme and that idea of possessions and stuff and well-being, things as basic as our food and our clothing and our drink. And he addresses this idea of being worried about these things. being consumed with these things. He wants them to know that worry and over-concern and anxiety for your daily bread can be a problem. He commands them in verse 22, I say to you, do not worry about your life. That's a command. That's an imperative. Oftentimes you wonder, why are these imperatives in scripture? Probably because we don't do that very well. Right? Why does it say love one another so many times? Right? Why does it tell you the obvious? Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church. Right? Well, because our tendency is towards self-love, and so we need to be reminded. This is a command. This is how we ought to live. And the same is true about worry. Don't worry about your life and Jesus' as to what you will eat, nor for your food as to what you will put on. No, this is a present tense imperative. Don't worry. This is to be your constant attitude. It is to be your constant disposition. You are not full of constant fear and worry about your daily provisions. That's what needs to characterize these disciples. We might be tempted to worry about how we're gonna make it financially. How can I be sure that I'll have everything that I need? So Jesus, and again, for these men who, we live in a very affluent society. These guys didn't have much. There wasn't much. And so even what, even that little, Jesus says, man, you need to tether that fear. You need to anchor that fear to some reality. God will provide what you need, right? That is an essence. If you walk out of here with anything, that's what Jesus wants you to know. Don't worry. God will provide what you need. Now, what you need and what you want are not the same, Americans, right? But that's what he's saying. He's gonna take care of you. You belong to him. And so this morning, we're gonna look at five truths that will serve in anchoring anxiety. We're probably only gonna look at the first three this morning, but notice the first one. Jesus, again, highlights this idea of there being more to life. more to life than just eating and drinking and being merry. Remember the mantra of the rich guy, the rich farmer? Hey, I've got it all, eat, drink, and be merry. And God adds, but you forgot the other one, for tomorrow you die, because that's what's going to happen, right? And so this idea of life being more, that life is more profound, that there is a profundity to life. We as Christians are not materialists. And I don't mean just materialistic, meaning we want stuff, but we're not materialists in the scientific way of thinking that we're more than our mass, we're more than our flesh and blood. What a fatal illusion to think our needs Our daily needs are only physical. They're only material. I would argue that we're thinking very worldly, if that is our way of thinking, that they're only material needs. They're only physical needs. And Jesus says very clearly, for life is more than food. It is more than your body and your clothing. It's more than that. We act like these are the only things, and as it grips us and causes us to fear the lack of something, and that becomes central, Jesus says, no, life is more than stuff. It's more than your daily provisions. It's more than having. There are more pressing things, more important things than your next meal. Your body is more than a mannequin to dress. It's more than a good meal and a new outfit. It's more than that. And it's certainly more than worrying about these things. And so what is Jesus providing? Perspective. Right? Perspective. We can become so linear. We've got our little blinders on and we see our problem. We see our struggle. We see our lack. And Jesus kind of takes the blinders. There's more than this. There's more to this than that. And Jesus modeled this in his encounter with Satan. Do you remember it? The temptation in the desert. Jesus without food for 40 days, right? Unlike the Israelites who complained over and over and over again. Jesus is in the desert like the Israel of old. And Satan comes and tempts him, and he tempts him with bread. Turn these stones into bread. That's an earthly way of looking at his circumstance, an earthly way of looking at his dilemma. And Jesus, of course, quotes from Deuteronomy 8, verse 3, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. What's his point? There are more important things than food. And for Jesus, and even for us, the words, the commandments of God, obedience to him, those things are of much more value, right? And that's really what's happening here. Jesus is giving them a value system. What do you ultimately value? On those things that are most important, those things that are most weighty, what makes that list? Jesus says the physical can't be your top. It can't be the most important. In this case, spiritual food, God's word is more important than physical food. We need spiritual nourishment too. Jesus says it better to obey God, it is better for me to obey God and stay on the path that He has determined for me than it is to fill my stomach. There are more important things. Jesus again models this kind of thinking when He says in Mark 8 verse 36, For what does a prophet a man to gain the whole world? And what? Forfeit his soul? Forfeit his soul? In this case, the soul is of more value, it is more profound, more significant, more consequential than gaining the entire world. all the world's wealth, and power, and pleasure, and glory, all the delicacies, and all the enjoyments, and all the achievements, and all the satisfaction. It's why Paul says, I consider everything to be what? Rubbish, scubula, garbage, or worse, right? In comparison to knowing Christ. Christ is infinitely more valuable than these things. And so you have this value system that Jesus is creating within them. Life is more than these things. Your soul is infinitely more important than that. Remember in verse 19, the rich farmer who says, soul, you have many goods laid up for you for many years to come. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry. Do you remember what God says? This very night, your soul is required of you and you've not thought much about it. You've not been giving much thought to this. That's why you need to be rich towards God. There's more to life. Salvation is infinitely more important. Your soul, your status before the living God is more important than any earthly concern you might have. You might have come here this morning, you're concerned about your job or financial stability. or fill in the blank, and Jesus saying, listen, there is something infinitely more valuable than your earthly well-being. And that is your soul. There's much more important things than your economic status. How do you fare before the Lord? What is your standing before him right now? Now, and that's just a reminder of our need for the gospel, our need for what we experienced and reminded one another of at the Lord's table. That I am a sinner who has offended a holy God and I am in desperate need of his mercy and grace. I'm in desperate need of what his son has provided for me, his righteousness. I need that. That is infinitely more important, infinitely more lasting. Jesus is going to get to that very reality. You need to be more concerned about stuff that doesn't end than stuff that does. This earthly stuff is fleeting. It fails. It's easy come, easy go. Jesus says, you need to start investing, he'll tell us. You need to start investing in things that don't perish, right? Where moths don't come in and destroy it, where thieves don't break in and steal. By the way, the same word, life, when he says, life is more than your food and your clothing. That same word, psyche, right? The soul, it's the same word that we see in verse 23. It's the same word we see in that discussion between the rich farmer and the Lord in verses 19 and 20 that I read. Biblically, life means more than just stuff, more than food, more than the physical. So there's a real sense in which he's alleviating their anxiety by saying, look, take a deep breath. about all your worries concerning your daily provisions, because first of all, your life is way more than that. What I am calling you to in seeking the kingdom and living for me and living for Christ, it's more than that. It's more than your physical well-being. So now you have life in perspective, that life is more than these things. You need to place them in the Lord's hands. Your worry is really a flashing warning light that there's a conflict that's going on in you between trusting the Lord and your own self-concern for material security. It's a warning light to us, our anxiety. And I would say that that is true when we think about our kids. You know, moms, you get all worried about your kiddos. You have sleepless nights. You know, what do you do with that worry? That's normal. But do you pray? Do you bring it before the Lord? Do you ask Him to intervene and work in the life of your kid? Or are you just consumed with this worry of this one kid, or maybe all your kids, or whatever it might be, right? We need to put it in perspective, and it might be a warning light, like, wait a second, my perspective is off here. I think I control a lot more than I actually do. And I think life, especially if it's about stuff, that I think life is just about this. There's more to life than that. Jesus then moves on in verse 24, and we see a second anchoring truth, anchoring reality that helps us in our anxious hearts, not only the profundity of life, but the providential care of the Father. The providential care of the Father. You might remember what the word providence means biblically. We talked about providence several months ago. It's the idea that God, we think of God's sovereignty, he rules over everything. Providence has the idea that he invades time and space and provides what is necessary to accomplish what he has planned. He provides what is necessary. That's where we get providence from. that he is going to provide what is needed to accomplish his purposes, that he will act in time and space. And he gives his men a visual here. You can almost picture this, a flock of birds fly by as he's talking to them, and as they pass overhead, Jesus says to them these words, consider the ravens. Look at them. You see them flying around. You see what they do. And by the way, there's lots of birds in Palestine. Galilee is kind of a crossroads for bird migration. And so Jesus has already mentioned that they're more valuable than these dime a dozen sparrows. And now he turns to the ravens. And he asks them to consider them, to give thought, to stop for a moment. and think through this, right? Reason through this for a moment. Consider the Ravens, verse 24, for they neither sow nor reap, for they have no storeroom nor barn. He's talking about that rich farmer, right? They don't have any of that, and yet God feeds them. They don't plant or harvest or put up silos. They're not farmers, they're scavengers. And yet God feeds them. He provides for them. And by the way, this is true throughout scripture. Jesus wasn't the first one to say something like this. God's provision of the animal kingdom, right? Job 38, 41, God provides for the ravens his food when his young ones cry unto him. Psalm 147, 9, he gives to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry. The point is, Jesus is going to argue from the lesser to the greater. Consider the lesser, these birds. These multiple birds, these dime-a-dozen birds, and God cares for them. And then he says, how much more valuable you are than the birds. Again, I know this goes against our current climate, but Humans are greater. We are not invaders, right? In the truest sense, the earth was created for those inhabitants, right? For us. We are the ones, according to Genesis, that are given dominion over the earth, correct? Right? We are to work the field. That's what Adam does in the garden, right? So, humans are greater. This of course goes back to the opening pages of this idea that we are image bearers of God. That's what sets us apart from every other creature. So when Peta, the people for the ethical treatment of animals, bemoans boiler chickens and their demise at your local Chick-fil-A or Cain's, with humans, The Holocaust, they do that, make a comparison between them. They are woefully off in comparison according to scripture, right? No, man, humanity is in the image of God. They are in the likeness of God. And that image is not true of cats or dogs or turtles or birds. Dogs are great. But they're not image bearers of God. If God cares for the lesser, he will certainly care for the greater. That is his point. Then Jesus turns to the lilies in verse 27 and says, you need to think about them for a moment. Stop. Take a deep breath and think about this. They neither toil nor spend, but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass and the field which is alive today, and tomorrow is thrown in the furnace, if he does that for them, these lilies or the grass that fades, right? Isaiah says that. The grass withers and the flower fades. If these things which become kindling for burning, if these things are cared for by God to that degree, how can we not? How much more will He clothe you? I mean, in reality, our incessant worry is unbelief. It's unbelief. We trust that our concerns are greater than God. And Jesus is telling his men who are preparing for his departure, Jesus is gonna leave them. And they're gonna need to walk with Christ moving forward and he's, you need to trust your father. You need to trust his providential care. You need to trust he will come through, even when it looks like it ain't gonna happen. you will come through. It's the very reason, go back to those times, he sends them out, right? He sends them out. And remember, he says, don't bring anything. Don't bring anything. Just go out and trust me. It was a lesson. I think I've shared before that I've had those lessons where it's like, oh man, I really don't know how I'm going to pay this bill. And yet the Lord provides, right? My years in seminary, I always think back, man, the Lord was so gracious and kind. He came through, and so I need to trust the Lord. It doesn't mean I don't go out. It doesn't mean I don't work. Scripture is very clear about that. If you don't work, you don't eat, right? That's 2 Thessalonians. So we need to work, right? We need to go. It doesn't mean we're lazy, but it is to say we need to trust the Lord. Take a deep breath. His providential care, we need to trust Him more than we do our circumstances. Verse 29, he says, and do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. Again, I don't think he's saying do nothing. He's just saying you guys need to realize where this comes from. Do not keep worrying for all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek. Don't you be unsettled. And why not, by the way? We're experiencing the lack. Why not? He says, you need to be different. The pagans keep drooling over all of these things. They shouldn't. These disciples shouldn't have a pagan appetite. These pagans don't know God. They're deceived about what is crucial in life. But that's not true of believers. That's not true of us. Your Father knows that you need these things. in this image of a concerned father, a father that cares for his children, just as you naturally do within yourself, want to care and clothe and provide for yours. So if he made such lavish beauty to clothe plants that die in a few days, that have no spiritual value, how much more will he take care to clothe the crown of his creation, the bride of his beloved son, whom he elected and redeemed. You need to reread Romans 8. If you need a boost in your confidence about this God who acts on your behalf, reread Romans 8. Spend some time meditating about that. If he wouldn't withhold his only son, would he withhold anything else? If he's given the ultimate thing, how will he not care for his own? It's no wonder that Peter, you can kind of think of this teaching as influencing what Peter will say in 1 Peter 5, casting all your care on him. Why? Because he cares for you. And then Jesus adds, you of little faith. And again, there's the indictment, right? We are trusting things. We are trusting stuff. We are trusting circumstances. We are not trusting God. We're not trusting his character, which is kind of a frightening indictment, right? We need to realize our anxiety isn't neutral. It isn't neutral. It could very well be a symptom of a spiritual distrust and spiritual unbelief. When we worry, we're denying God's promise that he'll give us whatever we truly need. We're denying his wisdom. not trusting that he fully appreciates the difficulties of our situation and that he's using them. We deny his goodness, not believing that he has our best interests in heart, even those struggles and trials. We deny his sovereignty, not waiting for him to provide what we need in his own good time. And we deny his fatherhood. And that's what Jesus is pointing out. Notice the language. care. Verse 32, we won't look at it this week, but, do not fear, little flock, your father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. I mean, what a way to see God. Do we view him that way, as a father that provides and cares and nurtures Or do we kind of see him as distant and we doubt him? Is he an absentee father? What does our unbelief in times of need reveal about our view of God? That's a great question for us to consider. You might be in that place now, but how are you viewing God in the midst of that? Jesus says, listen, the remedy for your fearful worries is more faith in a faithful and concerned father. You be thinking about him. You place your confidence in him. So what a lesson, what a perspective to anchor our anxiety to, our worry to. We have a Father in heaven who is providentially caring for us, carrying out his purpose, which we know Romans 8 works out for our good, for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. If you are one who loves him and are called according to his purpose, he's working out all things. And that includes our lack at times, right? Again, it doesn't mean he's going to provide everything you want. This is not a passage of prosperity, how it's been used at times. You know, he's going to provide that million dollar Malibu house that could burn, right? Yikes. Perspective, right? It's not that. That's not what he's talking about. In fact, look how interesting. He's talking about the basic necessities of life. He cares for his people. He will come through. Rest in that. You have a God who is providentially orchestrating all things. We can rest. There's a third lesson. We see this in verses 25 and 26. And I think this is helpful. It's the powerlessness of worry. The powerlessness of worry. What does your anxious heart actually accomplish? It's a great question to ask. Like, what does it actually do that's good, right? The foolish farmer had his life planned out and all his possessions and gains are in order, but he failed to realize that he's actually not the determiner of his days and his lifespan had actually come to an end. And I think equally foolish is the idea that your worry is actually accomplishing something valuable. It isn't. It's robbing, actually. It's doing the opposite. It doesn't add anything because it is ultimately powerless to accomplish anything. Worry inevitably robs. It is a thief. It's a thief. It steals our time. As our minds race with all of our troubles, it steals our rest as we lie awake. at night anxious about tomorrow or anxious about this or that. It steals our health as we suffer the effects of those sleepless nights along with maybe poor appetites or added stress, a heart rate that's off the charts. Another thing that worry does is it steals our obedience. as it tempts us to other sins, like irritability, or some form of addiction, or laziness, or maybe even overwork. Because that's something that we see in the scriptures, there seems to be, it's always, a lot of times it's somewhere in the middle, right? You can't be lazy, you can't overwork, it's gotta be somewhere in the middle. It steals our joy because we fear the worst about the future. That's how we need to see worry. Notice what Jesus says, verse 25. Which of you, by worrying, can add a single cubit to his lifespan? There's some discussion, if you have a King James Bible, it talks about, you know, stature. So, you know, who by worrying can add to your stature? I mean, who wouldn't want to be another 18 inches tall, right? I would. But either way, I don't think it matters, either way you get the point. I think though, contextually, it makes the most sense to see this as adding to your lifespan because that farmer planned and purposed and then died. And then he's saying, and you guys, you're worried because you don't have all that stuff. And he's saying, what does that do? That's as bad as all of this farmer's Lack of thought towards God, not doing as James says, which is to say, if the Lord wills, I'll go and do this and I'll build this and I'll do that, right? You worrying doesn't do anything for your life. It doesn't add. Which of you, by worrying? It's powerless to do that. And then verse 26, therefore, if you cannot do even a very little thing, which that sounds like a big thing, doesn't it? Adding to your lifespan, right? And that's what you guys who are doing essential oils and carnivore diets, you're trying to extend your life, right? Seed oils are bad, right? Sorry. That's what my home life is like. But, you know, I mean, we are trying to extend our life. And that's not a bad thing, trying to live more healthy and doing those kinds of things. But Jesus says specifically, by worrying, what are you accomplishing? You can't even do even a very little thing. So why do you worry about other matters? Worry is a sad waste of it all. It shrivels the soul as it robs you of joy, leaving you ill-equipped to face the spiritual challenges of each day. And it's impotent, right? Worry can't cure your cancer diagnosis. It's powerless to do that. It's powerless to keep your kids safe, or your mortgage paid, or your job secure. Worry cannot pay the bills or keep your kids out of trouble. Worry, in the end, Jesus says, accomplishes nothing. Instead, it will produce high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, sleepless nights, and distant relationships, right? It does nothing. So again, Jesus, in anchoring their fears and their worry, saying, look, take a deep breath. Trust the one who isn't impotent, right? Trust the one who is powerful. Trust the one who is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than you can ask or imagine. Trust that one who sees you as infinitely more valuable than the ravens. Someone said of worry that worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. It's true. It's true. And so Jesus is saying, listen, perspective here. You need to look at life. Life is more than stuff. You need to look at life in the fact that you have less because these guys did in comparison to this rich farmer. You need to look and realize, hey, the Lord is going to take care of my needs. I'm going to work and I'm going to do as He has commanded. I'm going to follow what He says, but the Lord will provide. I can take a deep breath and I need to realize I need to get off the rocking horse, rocking chair, right? Get off that thing. It's not doing anything. It's not going to get you anywhere. Worry isn't going to accomplish what you think it will. And so trust Him. Amen?