7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality, Devotional, Joy, Solid Joys, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, 163859, Jesus, Daily Devotional, John Piper

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

God will certainly take his energy and creative skill, and use it to care for his children since they will live forever.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	September 12, Seven Reasons Not to Worry. Part 2.
0:05.8	And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
0:11.8	And why are you anxious about clothing?
0:15.7	Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
0:19.8	They neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
0:27.6	But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
0:35.6	will he not much more clothe you,
0:39.3	O you of little faith?
0:41.3	Matthew 6, 27 to 30
0:45.3	Matthew 6 25 to 34
0:49.3	contains at least seven promises
0:53.3	designed by Jesus to help us fight the fight for faith
0:58.1	and be free from anxiety.
1:01.0	Yesterday we saw promises one and two.
1:03.1	Today we look at three and four.
1:06.8	Promise number three.
1:09.3	And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
1:16.3	Matthew 6.27.
1:19.9	This is a promise of sorts, the simple promise of reality that you can discover from experience. Being anxious will simply not do any good.
1:37.8	That's a promise. This is not the main argument, but sometimes we just have to get tough with ourselves and say,
1:49.0	soul, this fretting is absolutely useless.
1:55.0	It produces nothing.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Desiring God, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Desiring God and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.