MARVEL AND MYSTERIES: Take Care (Short)

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00:00Well, it was good to see you. Take care. It sounds so innocuous, doesn't it? But it bothered me when

00:07I heard it earlier this week, and it's such a simple expression. Why did this phrase bug me

00:11so bad and make me feel icky? Well, I started looking into the etymology of the phrase and

00:17discovered from the Old English that take means to grip, to seize, to lay hold of, and then care

00:24meaning grief, sorrow, anxiety. And so no wonder why the initial meaning of this expression

00:31will make you feel icky because it's literally being like, hey, don't forget to worry about

00:36everything on your way out. So I started looking more in verses to see what I could find about

00:42trouble and fear and anxiety. And here's the interesting thing. We know Philippians 4, 6,

00:46and 7, be anxious for nothing, but in everything in supplication, you know, give thanks, let the

00:52Lord know what's going on. Let your requests be made known to him. And that's the classic,

00:56be careful for nothing, be full of care for nothing, right? But when you go to John 14, 27,

01:03and Jesus is saying, peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives you,

01:09do I give to you. And he says, let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Now that word,

01:16this is the classic sense of troubled, to feel like your spirit gets nailed and you go into fear

01:23and dread. But that exact same word is translated in other verses as to render anxious or distressed,

01:32to perplex in the mind by suggesting scruples and doubts. So how many times is that what's really

01:39happening to us when we're taking cares, when we're being troubled, we're thinking of the doubts,

01:44and all of our anxiety gets rooted in fear. So I encourage you to not worry about today for today

01:52and tomorrow have troubles of their own. But check out matrixofjustice.org for more words to the wise.