Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

If our God, if the Heavenly Father is a good, a blessing, and a prospering God

that makes sure somehow birds get taken care of and cares about the beauty of flowers

that don't last more than a few months,

isn't he going to care about security and beauty for you since you're his child?

Welcome to Summit Life with pastor, author, and apologist J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

Okay, so what brings you the most worry and anxiety? Is it your kids, your job, your finances?

I think it's safe to say that we usually worry about what we are devoted to most.

Thankfully, Jesus talks about the difficult emotion of anxiety by first challenging

what it is that we are most devoted to. Today, Pastor Jady continues our new teaching series

called Smoke from a Fire. And as always, if you miss the first message in this teaching,

you can always catch up online at jadie greer.com. But right now, here's Pastor Jadie with a message about

anxiety. If you got your Bibles this weekend, you will take them out and you will open them,

turn them on and scroll down to Matthew chapter 6. That is where we are going to be today.

Matthew chapter 6, verse 24. We are in our second week of a series on emotions that we are calling

smoke from a fire. The basic idea in this series is that our strongest and our deepest emotions

function something like smoke from a fire in which you could trace the trail of the smoke

back down to see what is on fire in your heart. The wise thing to do if you smell smoke in your house

is never to whiff it away. It's not to turn on a fan or try to get the smoke out of your house.

The wise thing to do is to figure out what is on fire in your house.

When the same way, when you experience these emotions, before you just focus on managing them or even on medicating them, what you ought to do

is look at what they are telling you about the condition and the state of your heart so that you

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