25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. 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 worrying can add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry 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 clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today” Matthew 6:25-34.
Reading the bible daily and reflecting on what God says in His Word, and then praying about what I read — this is what I try to do every morning.
To put my faith in Jesus is to trust Him, and when you and I can be this kind of person, we can simply do what he teaks us to do in this text: Do Not Worry! But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. The righteousness of God is God’s approval or being right in His eyes. To be righteous means to be in the right relationship with God. When we are in this relationship with God we have the grace not to worry about anything. This comes to us through God’s gift of faith and trust in Him.
So today pray about being righteous before God. Trust God in everything, and do not worry.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“ 21 For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” 2 Corinthians 5:21.
“1 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me” Psalm 25:1-2.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding” Proverbs 3:5.
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” Romans 8:28.
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