Don’t Worry
“Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Matthew 6:15
Don’t worry? Is this even possible? In the world we live in today, how can we not worry? Worry about how to make ends meet? Worry about our children growing up in godless society? Worry about contracting the latest variant? Certainly, God understands that things are a little stressful in day to day living right now?
Well, according to this passage, and this is Jesus speaking, we should not be worried about life. In fact, this isn’t even a suggestion, it is a direct order. He said don’t worry about if there will be food on the table of if you will have clothes to wear. The reason is because life is so much more than eating and the latest fashion. He goes on to say that God takes care of the birds and the flowers so how much more valuable are people to God than these?
Then Jesus repeats His admonishment “Don’t worry about what you are going to eat or wear. ” He said that is what the gentiles, the people without a relationship with God, worry about. So, He gives us the key to success in life to having those needs and desires met. It is: Seek first, that is before anything else, God’s kingdom and His righteousness in Christ Jesus. As you do that, then all of the above things will be added to you. That is a extremely awesome promise!!
Lastly, He sums it all up by saying “and don’t worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of its own things. Live in today!”
Today I want to encourage you not to worry about the things you have need of. Instead, start the day off seeking God’s kingdom plan and receive His righteousness to accomplish it. As you begin to line your life up with God’s agenda, all the other things will be added to you and fall into place.
Today’s scripture reading: Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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