Are You Careful Or Carefree? Part One

Are You Careful Or Carefree? Part One

We have been taught to be very careful since young. "Be careful of this! Be careful of that!" We learnt to care for what needs to be cared for. Being carefree, sometimes, is not valued and not appreciated.

But the principle of being careful is also brought into the spirit realm when we get born again. 

If not careful, being careful will become full of cares. And that affects the spirit realm.

Jesus said in Matt 6:34, "So do not 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 about tomorrow; for tomorrow will 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

The word 'worry' is actually the same word as 'care'. The English translation is not the best. In Greek, the word 'worry' and 'care' is 'merimnaó', which means 'to go to pieces because pulled apart in different directions'. It literally means '𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝'.

In English, it is however, translated as 'to care for, to be anxious, to worry, to be concerned', etc.

If we are careful, our mind will be occupied with the object of our care. We become distracted and divided, because it is impossible to have two different objects in our mind ----- both God and the cares.

Peter was walking on water. But when he saw the storm, he became fearful and started sinking. The storm had nothing to do with him working out a supernatural phenomenon of walking on water and defying gravity.

But the storm was designed to cause Peter to CARE. For when he cared about the storm, he became divided and distracted.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥.

All of life is designed to cause us to CARE. We care about our finances; we care about our education; we care about our job; we care about our future; we care about our family and children; we care about our health, and the list of cares continue.

The enemy knows full well. And his goal is to get us to CARE in this world.

Mark 4:19 says that 'the cares ('merimna' - same root word as Matt 6:34) of the world.... 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥.' 

For the word of God to be fruitful (manifested) in our lives, we must be CARE-LESS. Being carefree is the main ingredient for the word of God to be fruitful.

𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞-𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬-𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞-𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. The more you are full of cares, the more you walk in fear. The more you are free from cares, the more you walk in faith.

This is why the Bible tells us to 'Cast all our care on Him, because He cares for us." (1 Peter 5:7).

A better translation will be this... 'We are to cast the object of our care (that causes division and distraction in our mind) on God, because we are the object of His care.'

Instead of focusing on the object of your care, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞.

Become care-LESS. Become careFREE. And see how the word of God produces fruit in your life.

In the next part, we will see how this releases healing to your body and causes you to walk in divine health.