{"id":12157,"date":"2025-02-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:52:43","slug":"do-not-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About the Hour When …<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday 18 February 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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What\u2019s Coming At Us, From Behind the Trees, On the Road, Through the Woods?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a Beautiful Sunset<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the Snow and<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the Woods!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 49:23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kings shall be your foster-fathers, and their queens your nursing-mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke 12:11-12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all fine and good to say do not worry, but most of us worry no matter what, sometimes even about things that deserve to be worried about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being brought before the authorities to defend oneself for being a Christian, when the punishment for that faith was death for so many … well that certainly seems to deserve more than a little worry. One\u2019s life is on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then<\/p>\n\n\n\n

one\u2019s life is always on the line<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if one is faithfully serving Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by being a servant to all, and master to none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only in a different life will the kings and queens bend so low as to care for us, let alone care about us, other than to wipe us out for showing the truth about their wickedness and God\u2019s goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that worry, and that other life to come, need not consume more than passing thoughts from us. We have our work cut out for us, sharing God\u2019s blessing and gifts with those most in need of them. Without cost they are given to us, though we certainly have not and cannot earn them. The only \u2018string\u2019 attached is that we share them. For these gifts are really only blessings if and when we share them with others in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how God\u2019s world works, whether we worry or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About the Hour When … Tuesday 18 February 2025 What\u2019s Coming At Us, From Behind the Trees, On the Road, Through the Woods? Or What a Beautiful Sunset Over the Snow and Through the Woods! Isaiah 49:23 Kings shall be your foster-fathers, and their queens your nursing-mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall … Continue reading “Do Not Worry”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,88,114,71,104,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold","category-love-and-hope","category-lynx","category-sunset","category-thanks","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}