"Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than clothing?" Matthew 6:25
The Lord knew our fears, and spoke these words to guide us past them.
Those he spoke to that day were far below any poverty level we have known. Yet he spoke these words. He knew these words could bless them. They can bless us too, if we receive them.
We should not feel smug because we are not at their economic level.
We are tempted to be anxious with far more food than they.
We sin by being anxious for things, and not trusting our Father who sees .
It is clear that we cannot correct any problem until we see it.
But we have turned away from looking toward the Invisible God.
Our eyes have become dim to see the things that pertain to Him;
to see truths given to lift us up from the clay from which we were formed.
"Is not life more than the food...?"
Our life, our soul, who we are, what we desperately want to preserve,
is it not more than food?
Will we dismiss Jesus' words as simplistic, out-of-touch with year 2000?
On another day, near a two thousand year-old well in Samaria,
Jesus told his apostles that he had meat to eat that they knew not of.
Was he telling the truth?
We come to see that Jesus' words leave us no room to walk away.
They work in our heart until we accept them, or know we reject them.
We will be changed by them.
Will we surrender to him?
Will we suspend our reasoning to his words?
Will we trust him with the life he gave?
"Be not anxious for your life."