Come

Listen again to the given text.

Don’t worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart. And God’s peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus. Philippians 4: 6 – 7 GNT

Worry is no stranger to the young and the old; the rich and the poor; the student and the teacher; the employer and the employee; the believer and the non-believer. In this text, we are not just told about worry, but we are given, four Prayer Posts or movements, which are guaranteed to help us all, who are plagued with worry. Let me say upfront that these words will do absolutely nothing for readers and hearers, who doubt and have no faith in the Word of God.

The writer of Philippians knows that worry is what people, you and I, face daily on our walk of life, so he gives his words on it, that which have been given to him by God. More important, he offers us the way he himself lives. And we well know and appreciate, if ever there was a man to be plagued with all kinds of worry, Paul was, yet he was never a companion of worry.

I told you that there are four posts on Worry, which are embedded in the text. These posts perfectly spell out the word COME. Yesterday, I told you this and I quote. “These posts are not set up to have you stop and abandon the walk. No! By all means no! Rather, each is there for you to COME, and receive the specific promises about worry, which you have been given in prayer.”

The Word, come, was written in Uppercase letters, for this very reason, introducing you to the COME, the four prayer posts embedded in our text. Come is a word of Jesus our Lord, to all who are burdened and troubled. Jesus says, Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11: 28. Jesus called and is still calling all people, who are in need of relief from life’s daily stresses, to come. He, God Incarnate, has stooped low to come to earth to help us and He has given us freedom to respond to Him. He has literally cleared the way for us to be free of all bondage and come to Him.

Now Jesus does not just call, but His call comes with a promise. Come to Me, no one else but Me and I promise to give you rest. It is guaranteed. You and I know that our Lord never deceives and that when He promises, He is faithful to keep every single one of them. 2 Timothy 2: 13, tells us this. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny himself. It is with this assurance that we receive the promised four posts.

The first post in our freedom to COME, is our Call. To COME, there must be a Call. Don’t worry about anything.

This is nothing short of a call, a command even, to every person who is being plagued by worry, all kinds of worry. As with the water posts, the participants in the charity walk know from before-hand that refreshment posts will be met along their way. So too with us. We know, even before we begin the walk of any new day, that prayer has already been set up for us along our life’s path. If we do not trust this word to be so, if there is no confidence in this word, we will enter that walk with a measure of worry. We will either go totally troubled about having water or we will walk with our own; both foolish movements. You and I know full well that the call is given to every single walker, not some and not others, but all walkers, that there is refreshing for them. Whether they get too hot or feel the pangs of thirst, they do not have to go thirsty, for well-supplied posts are before them, all the way.

Don’t we realize that the same is exactly true for us, if we believe? I tell you, even before we consciously begin our day’s walk, we hear and know that this call, this prayer post, is set up and waiting on you. This call has no preferences, nor is it designed for only certain types of worry. Will you see prayer as a post, divinely set up all along your life’s way, just for you?

Listen again to the Call.

Do not worry about anything.