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Luke 12:22-34 Fear Not:- LifeBeing a husband and the father of four kids means I can readily relate to the gold fish in the picture. There are many expenses that come with a wife and kids but they are not all financial and they are not all bad. Typically we are encouraged to measure everything according to a monetary value. When there is a flood it isn’t long before we are told how much the damage will cost. Jesus would say that life is more than money. Money cannot buy love or trust. Money cannot bring you back from the dead. Money can’t heal a broken heart or give hope to someone who is depressed. Life as a husband and a father is difficult and expensive; financially, emotionally and faithfully. I can view my wife and kids as a drain on my life or I can see them as central to my life. As I give up my personal space, time and effort to provide for, love and disciple my family I begin to realise that life is more than surviving each day, or being able to put food on the table, or being able to watch a movie without being interrupted. Life is about living ‘with’ and ‘in’ Jesus Christ. It is about learning to enjoy my wife and kids as Christ does. This involves me learning how to see my family as Christ does so that I can begin to love them in a Christlike way. My relationship with Christ is the first thing to go from my mind when I worry. When I worry I’m alone and my circumstances look negative and overwhelming. Then the needs of my family feel like a drain on my life. What I need then is to be reminded that Christ indeed cares for me and is caring for me. Only when I turn to Christ will I fear not:-life. the Rev
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