Keith Wayne Phillips
2015
5) “…do not worry about your life..”-Matt. 6,25 “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 clothing?...can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life span?...Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”-Matt. 6, 25-34 In these words, Jesus commands us to stop worrying about our life and its circumstances; and that we must trust in God; that He will provide all that we truly need. We are to learn from the way that the flowers grow, and the grass in the field; God provides for them. The birds of the air and all of God’s creatures and processes of this world are well in hand, under God’s watchful eye. Nothing in God’s creation worries except man. We have been given the power of rational thought but we abuse it by questioning God’s purpose for us and His ability to take care of us. We venture down the road of self-reliance and self-sufficiency and soon find that we have lost our way. But Jesus tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all that we need, will be provided. If we focus on eternity, rather than what soon fades away, we will soon find that most of our day to day worries will have no meaning. We are to clothe ourselves with the mantle of Christ; we are to eat of his body and drink of his blood through the Eucharist. We are to trust in his word and in his Church; and thus pattern our lives in complete faith in the promises that he has made to us. Jesus asks us to live in this moment, with our focus on eternal life in Heaven with our Heavenly Father. If we can do this for a few moments, then perhaps we can maintain this focus for an hour, and then a day, and then a lifetime. We have no need to worry if our eyes are fixed on preparing our
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