Matthew 6:25 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?
Is your heart full of worries about your health, finances,
family or future? Even
when all is well, some people still worry because they have
heard others say,
“You should worry when everything is peaceful because
something is wrong
when the devil leaves you alone.” So they 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, He 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 probably would
not have found any in the desert.
The problem with us today is that we think that we must do
something to help
ourselves. Some of us may even think that it is easy for Jesus
to say, “Don’t worry.
Take no thought for your life,” because He does not understand
the problems we
face in life.
But the truth is that Jesus understands 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 can trust Him when He tells us not to worry!
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