let’s say you want to obey Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount to “not worry.” You want to become a non-anxious presence in the world. How do you do it? Do you listen to a good sermon on Matthew 6 and then just go out and…not worry? How’s that working for you? I’m guessing it’s not. For most of us, being told to live without anxiety is like being told to run a marathon. We can’t do it. Not yet. So, how do we live without worry? Well, we have to become the kinds of people who have learned to trust in God so deeply that we are free of fear.
