Do Not Worry

 “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?  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?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” ….  But be sure that while you are alive, you have been a good financial steward.  I mean, sure, you shouldn’t actually worry or store anything in a barn anywhere, but of course you should be putting around 20% in your retirement portfolio so that you don’t become a burden to anyone in your old age.  And nothing wrong with some safety nets, a safety deposit box, a hidden safe somewhere, an offshore account. You know, just in case.

“And don’t worry about clothes.” …  Clothes have become so affordable thanks to the slave conditions in manufacturing in other countries, that everyone can afford clothes these days.   “See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin”… and you don’t have to either.  That work belongs to those folks in those factories.  I mean, sure, the working conditions are tragic, but if it weren’t for that job, they might have no job at all, so you know - maybe it’s the lesser of two evils after all.   “I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like those flowers.  It’s just proof that 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? “ 

 I know times are tough because of COVID.  We’ve been deprived of so many of life’s pleasures.  But do not worry, saying, ‘When can we go out to eat again?  I miss going out to restaurants?’ or ‘What shall we drink and when can we go to bars again?  I miss going out to the bars’ or ‘What shall we wear?  I’m so tired of just knocking around my house in my sweats all day, I can’t wait to be able to get dressed up and go out!’  Even though unspiritual people pursue these things, your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  It’s not enough to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.  God knows you need all those other things as well.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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