// Read: Matthew 6:25-34 //
25 “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? 26 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? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 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? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
MEDITATION:
Worry and anxiety should not be used for a child of God. Philippians 4:6 says, “Be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God. We are encouraged to pray instead of worry. If God can provide for the creatures he made that cannot do anything for themselves; how much more His children? Cultivate the habit of resting in God for provision and live in abundance.
PRAYER: Pray that God will deliver you from fruitless labour of worry and anxiety (vs 27).