"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?
26 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?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But 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?
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 But 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."
Matthew 6:33 has always been one of my favorites. "ALL THESE THINGS" will be added to you" was the main thing I would see. Not slowing down long enough to see what JESUS was saying in verses 25-32, my main interest was in "ALL THESE THINGS"! Earthly desires and possessions always seem to wiggle their way into my thought patterns as I attempt to serve GOD. And GOD doesn't need earthly possessions for us to glorify HIS name, HE only needs us honor and obey HIM!
The SON OF GOD came to walk a path that NO ONE else would have chosen. HE left HIS throne in Heaven to come to earth to purchase salvation for all who believed in HIM. HE knew HE was the only ONE who could pay our sin debt. And mankind rejected HIM. They couldn't believe that a KING would manifest HIMSELF as a suffering servant so mankind would have an avenue to Heaven!
Sine JESUS was and is GOD, why didn't HE avoid going to Jerusalem to be arrested during Passover? Why was it that the rulers of HIS day just happened to capture HIM on the very day they did? There were over 350 prophecies fulfilled by the life of JESUS CHRIST. A "conservative" estimate of someone fulfilling just EIGHT of the 350+ prophecies is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000*! Imagine what the number would be if all 350 fulfilled prophecies were considered!
In verse 30 of the text above, JESUS says "O YOU OF LITTLE FAITH". GOD was walking right in front of their eyes and they couldn't even "see" HIM! But aren't we in a similar condition today? GOD has manifested HIMSELF in my life in more ways that I care to admit to, yet I still want everything to happen according to MY plan. When I get into a difficulty and don't know the way out of it, JESUS is there saying "You believe in GOD, believe in me also!" HE lives in us and desires to guide our lives. But we (Self) want to run things according to our own plan.
Until we allow HIM to reign in our life alone, we will live in defeat! JESUS desires to rule our lives, but HE can't do that from the "co-pilot" seat! When GOD becomes the ruler of a life, the desires and passions of that life suddenly change to the things that glorify GOD. "ALL THESE THINGS" that I used to dream of and cherish fade into the reality of making sure HE is glorified in everything I do. GOD, I pray that YOU will become the focal point of everything I say and do and that I will trust YOU to provide "ALL THESE THINGS" in my life!
*(http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/radio034.htm)
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