25“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious 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? 26Look 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? 27And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
**This is one of my very favorite passages. Verse 33 always sticks out to me--I used to not know what it meant to "seek first the kingdom of God and His rightousness." But as I've grown closer to Christ, the more I've discovered what that means. Fellow believers, it's a huge promise from our Lord. God has promised that if we will be focused on His Kingdom & His Gospel instead of our needs (our agenda) then all these other things will be provided for us. I think too many of us believe the lie that we are our own providers. GOD is the One who gives us our health, our jobs, our money, our clothing, and our food. We don't. To believe that we do is pride and is a sin.
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