Tomorrow Will Worry About Itself
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25 “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?
Whenever you see therefore, you need to look back and see what therefore is there for.
19 “Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
So last week we discussed not storing up treasures on earth, but storing up treasures in heaven. What will we treasure in heaven? If you are serving money, then you are not serving God. If you are serving God, you are not serving money. Therefore, we are to be generous people who are kingdom focused with our wealth. So this week’s passage is coming from the context of wealth.
25 “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?
Which is more important? Life or food? You eat to live, you don’t live to eat. Which is more important? Your body, or clothing? Isn’t there more to your life than just eating? Isn’t there more to your body than just what you wear?
26 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?
How often does God feed them? Daily. How did Jesus teach us to pray to God? Give us Lord, our daily bread. Jesus is teaching that God provides for the birds daily what they need, and he will provide what you need each day, you just have to learn to trust Him. He provided daily for the Israelites all of their needs, but they had to learn to trust Him. He wants us to do the same.
We must learn to trust God. Israel did not trust God to give them food, and water, and clothes, but God provided all of those things the entire 40 years they were in the wilderness.
5 I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;
Jesus trusted God in the ways that Israel did not when he was tempted in the wilderness for 40 days, Satan tempted him to feed himself by turning stones to bread, he tempted him to jump from the temple to test if God would protect him from physical harm, and he tempted him to worship him instead of God, all three Israel failed, all three Jesus did not.
27 Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? 28 And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. 30 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?
God’s love for you is far greater than his love for grass, you are made in His image, grass is not, grass is far more temporary than you, we have every reason to trust Him, we just have to take that step.
31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
God reassures us that He knows what we need and that He will provide these things for us, but He doesn’t want us to just sit around idle waiting for Him to give us what we need, He wants us to be busy working to build the kingdom.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
If we will set our hearts and minds on the kingdom of God and living righteous lives, then He will make sure we will have everything we need. Not everything we want, because we usually want the wrong things, but everything we need, and the more our wants are changed to match his wants, the more he will provide those as well.
34 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
And if 2020 hasn’t proven that to you yet, I don’t know what will. But we have a God who knew 2020 was coming, and it didn’t mess up his plans. It messed us up big time, because we have become so self reliant, we think we have it all under control and therefore we don’t need to depend on God for our day to day needs, but 2020 has woken a lot of us up to realize that we don’t really have control over anything that we think we have control over. Some of us have become for more dependent on God for our needs, and I don’t think that is a bad thing. He has been asking us for thousands of years, to live day to day trusting Him for our needs as we live holy every day focusing on the kingdom and real treasures, people, not things and worldly wants.
Are you worrying about things that you don’t really need? Are you worrying about things that God already knows you need? Are you worrying about things that you can’t change? Are you ready to stop worrying? It won’t be easy, but you can do it.
The first step is trusting that God will provide you with what you need, and accepting that you may have to give up some of your wants. Bring your concerns to Him in prayer. Tell Him the things you are worried about and trust Him to provide you with what you need.
And the next step is to start focusing on the kingdom of God and pursuing a righteous life with Him. Ask yourself, what is something I can do today that will benefit the kingdom of God, and do it. No one else can do these things for you. You must decide to trust Him and follow Him, that is what we, as christians, are called to do.
Trust and Obey, for there’s no other way. To repent and believe. To turn from sin, and follow Him.