“Your
Heavenly Father Knows
What You Need”
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your
life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you
will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body
more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more
value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span
of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of
the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he
not much more clothe you – you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying,
‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is
the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father
knows that you need all these things. But strive first
for the
“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow
will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”
Matthew 6:25-34
It is easy for us to panic when we face serious
concerns – the loss of a job, a family member with health issues, a wayward
child, a difficult spouse or financial issues.
So we pray. And we get busy. We start doing
everything we can think of to move forward in a positive way. And we also worry
– even though it is a waste of time. We know we should trust God, but we wonder
what He is going to do.
That is when we turn to His Word – to remind us
that He is walking with us and inviting us to hand over to Him our worries and
burdens.
Worry is a burden God
never intended us to bear.
Our Daily
Bread
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