Matthew
6:25
25Therefore 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?
Is
your heart full of worries about your health, finance, family or future? Even
when all is well, you still worry because you have heard people say, “You
should worry when everything is peaceful because something is wrong when the
devil leaves you alone.” So you worry even when there is nothing to worry
about!
But
Jesus does not want you to worry about what you will eat or drink, or about
your body and what you will put on your back. He tells you not to worry about
your daily provisions because God, who is your heavenly Father, knows that you
need all these things and He wants to add these things to you. (Matthew
6:32–33)
God
is the same God who took care of the children of Israel in the wilderness,
feeding them with manna every day for 40 years! (Exodus 16) Under His care, His
people had no lack. When the people wanted meat for dinner, God simply rained
quails on them. (Numbers 11:31–32) The children of Israel only had to pick them
up. If they had gone to look for meat themselves, they may not have found any
in the desert.
The
problem with us is that we feel that we must do something to help ourselves.
Some of us may think that it is easy for Jesus to say “Don’t worry. Take no
thought for your life” because He does not know the problems we face in life.
But the truth
is that Jesus knows the problems we face in life. In fact, He faced what I
would call the “final problem” — death. Death is the “final problem” because it
puts an end to all our other problems. Jesus faced death at the cross,
conquered it and rose from the dead. And because He conquered the problem of
problems, we ought to trust Him when He tells us, “Do not worry.”
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