Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, September 12th, 2021

 Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, September 12th, 2021

In the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, we hear Our Lord giving very profound, extremely useful advice:  "Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on" (St. Matthew 6:25)  I think it is true of human beings in general but it is especially true of the time in which we live that human beings worry about things.  We are indeed anxious for many things:  we are anxious for material possessions, we are anxious to obtain the latest "doo-dads," whether those be the latest, greatest phone or the latest fashion trend or whatever the world tells us that we just have to have at this exact moment.  We are anxious to get everything done that we want to accomplish:  whether at home or at work or at church or where we volunteer.  We want to do this and we need to do that and before we do that we need to stop over there so that we can get this started  . . . . etc., etc., etc.    So often in life we get ourselves so wound up over all the things we need to do and need to accomplish.  As Our Lord said, we get anxious and our head gets filled up with all the things we need to do,  the things that we want to do . . . . As human beings we get anxious for what other people think or how other people will react or how other people will treat us.  We worry about if we will fit in or if we will be accepted or if we will be considered "cool."  This is certainly true among human beings when they are young.  The bottom line is that we get anxious about work, we get anxious about home, we get anxious if people will accept us, we get anxious about the things we need to do, we get anxious about the things we already did, we get anxious about what we are going to eat, we get anxious about when we will eat . . .  .  We get anxious.  Period.

But what can we do about this?  Well, as is usually the case, Our Blessed Lord gives us that answer as well.    Our Lord says:  " But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you"  (St. Matthew 6:33)  In other words, we need to put God first in our life.  We need to get in the habit of making God our number one priority.  It seems that everything we get anxious for becomes our number one priority:  what we are going to eat . . . what we are going to wear . . . what we are going to buy . . .  what we need to do . . . what we need to accomplish . . . what people think of us . . . .  But we need to focus on God first.  We need to place Him first before all else.  And the more we focus on Our Heavenly Father the less time we will have for focusing on things which do not ultimately matter.  Our Lord says that we should "seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness" (v.33)  As human beings we tend to seek first the "world and its' worldliness."  We want what we want when we want it, in other words.  This has been a human tendency since Adam and Eve.  Let us follow Our Lord's advice and seek first the Kingdom of God before we seek out the things of the world.  Make God our top priority and worry more about making God happy instead of only worrying about what makes us happy!  

St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church worships every Sunday morning at 10:30 AM at the Chapel at Marquette Manor, which is located at 8140 N. Township Line Road on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.

NOTE:  Keep in mind that we must enter in the main entrance of the lobby and sign in before we go to the chapel.  

Please Join us as we gather together as God's family to:  hear the Word of God; listen as God speaks to each one of us in our hearts; worship God in song and in word; listen to the King James Bible and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer; and, finally, receive Our Blessed Lord in Holy Communion so that we can be nourished for the journey we call life.  Take one hour out of your busy schedule to worship God, to honour God, to acknowledge the need for God in your life.