Worried about money
4 min read · Scripture from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Money worries can follow you everywhere: to bed at night, into your conversations, into your prayers. The Bible doesn't pretend these fears aren't real. Jesus spoke about them often, because most of the people listening to Him lived from one harvest to the next. He never told them their needs didn't matter. He told them who was watching over those needs.
When it's hard to say "I trust You"
The Bible never asks you to pretend. The prophet Habakkuk watched everything he depended on fail, and he said so honestly before choosing to trust:
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls, yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!”
You can start where he started: by telling God exactly what isn't working.
Scripture and context
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”