The God of the Universe cares for me?

Matthew 8:23-27; Matthew 6:25-34
Let me just say that after reading a chapter in Mark Atteberry's book "Free Refill", I have been officially challenged. All to often in my life, I find things going just great then it seems as if everything goes sour quick. I've been a little stressed lately with lots of work stuff going on, and some other things that are going on that are just putting me under a lot of stress, not to mention my lack of ability to say "no" to people, which continues to fill my calendar. Let me just say that as far as the ability to say "no" to people I am getting better. It just seems as if life continues to beat me and people in general up. I believe this has a lot to do with the way that we read our Bibles and our view of God at different points in our lives. Let me explain what I mean.

First, I believe that we feel a lot more stress or the stress that we feel is a lot more consuming due to the lack of scripture that we are currently taking into our lives. So yes you can make the obvious connection. There has not been a lot of time for Chris to do personal study therefore it has not been done. The crazy part is that I've been in my Bible a lot, but the key is that its to write some lesson or answer a question for someone, I have not taken the time as "religiously" as I should to sit down and read the scriptures for my own good. Which for me as a minister is a slippery slope because after a day I can look back and feel like all I've done is read the Bible but in reality, I've done nothing for my own spiritual growth.

Second, I believe that the second things that adds to our stress level is our view of God. Now let me just say that I know who God is and I believe that He is the perfect creator who is continually in control of my life and sent Jesus His one and only son to this earth to die for my sins, and through belief, confession, repentance, baptism, and living a faithful life I can be assured of the eternal promise of heaven. I say all that to say that sometimes we forget just what all that means and stands for. Next time you get a chance google pictures of the earth from space and realize that you are one the earth somewhere. Then google pictures of the milky way galakcy which earth, sun, and moon are a part of are realize that somewhere in that galaxy is our earth and somewhere on that earth is you. The God who created all that in it's perfect way, even knows the very number of hairs on your head. That's the God that you and I serve and love, and we allow a little stress at work to bother us. God can make sure that our galgacy is perfectly created and functioning in its own special way, that same God is there to take care of you and I and as stated in Matthew 8 calm the storms of our lives.

So, I believe it's time that we turn back to the scripture and make reading God's word a daily ritual, and please remeber that this plea is coming from a man who struggles with this himself. It's also time that we take a look at how big God is and how much he cares for each one of His creations (which is us by the way).