The Verse: Matthew 6:24-34
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
The Thought
These verses are packed with thoughts – I may spend a couple of days sifting through all the affirmations, promises and teachings from them.
What does Jesus mean? Why are we not to worry?
Here He addresses some of the things we worry about.
· Health—“do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body”
· Possessions—“what you will wear”
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
There’s plenty to worry about for EVERYONE. Christians like to pretend that they don’t worry. They just call their worries, prayer concerns. Though Christians struggle with worry, we don’t have to be defeated by it.
To worry is to Miss the Point of Life
Jesus tells us life is far more important than material things. So often our worries are about relatively unimportant and trivial matters, such as food, drink, clothing, houses and cars. Look any typical magazine and you will find it is preoccupied with the very things Jesus told us not to worry about - with clothes, food and drink. Jesus says that life 'is more important than these things.’
Jesus says here that if we seek fulfilment in material things we are missing the whole point of life. The point of life is to have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Worry misses the point of life.
Jesus says here that if we seek fulfilment in material things we are missing the whole point of life. The point of life is to have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Worry misses the point of life.
When you hear Jesus’ words, it sounds like he is talking to people who are in poverty here, doesn’t it? I believe wealthy people worry just as much if not more than poor people. There’s plenty to worry about for the wealthy and the poor.
The poor worry about how they will get these, the wealthy worry about losing them.
What’s your biggest worry right now?
The Prayer
Father God, I want to begin my prayer by asking for your forgiveness. I have all allowed worry to have its way with my hearts. I know that worry is senseless and harmful. I know this in my head, but I still struggle to choose the way of faith over the way of worry. Thank you for loving me even though sometimes I have such a little faith that I worry. Lord, I choose to trust you. I choose to seek you first.
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