Nauvoo at Night- Sample

Matthew 6:25–34 CSB

“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith? So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

What does the Text Say?

Don’t be Anxious

Look at the Birds

Can Anxiety add to our lives?

What can we gain in anxiety?

What are you anxious about?

Is it your provision?

Is it our wants?

Instead of anxiety, seek Righteousness

Seeking righteousness will consume us and will keep us from being anxious.

Application

How do we seek Righteousness?

What do we put in our mind?

What spiritual disciplines have we practiced?

Our seeking of righteousness should point us towards how we can trust the Lord.

Matthew Henry suggests, “Happy are those who take the Lord for their God, and make full proof of it by trusting themselves wholly to his wise disposal.”

Do we really trust the Lord? If we are seeking righteousness we will grow in our trust of HIS provision.

Tonight as we pray, let’s be praying for deeper trust of God’s provision.

Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1997), Mt 6:25.