Love Helps Us to Overcome Fear - FEAR OF NOT BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR OUR FAMILY

 A Christian family head takes seriously the responsibility to care materially for his family.  (1 Timothy 5:8) If you are a family head, perhaps during the recent pandemic there as a real possibility that your would lose your job.  You may have worried  that you would struggle to put food on the table and pay the rent or the mortgage on your home. You may also have been afraid that if you lost your job, you would not be able to find another one.  Or like Nestor and Maria, mentioned earlier, you have hesitated to make and adjustment in your secular work that would affect your lifestyle.  Satan has had a lot of success in exploiting such fears. 

Satan tries to make us believe that Jehovah does not care about us personally and that we are on our own when it comes to procviding for our family. As a result, we might conclude that we need to do whatever it takes to hold on to our present employment, even if it means ignoring Scriptural principles. 

Jesus, who knows the Father better than anyone else does, assures us that our God  "knows what [we] need even before [we]ask him." (Matthew 6:8) And Jesus knows that Jehovah is ready to provide for our needs. As Christians, we members of God's household.  We can be sure that as a family Head, Jehovah will respec the people he had recorded at 1 TIMOTHY 5:8.

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