Why Are We Told To Take No Thought For Our Lives?

Matthew 6:25-34 closes this piece of the Sermon on the Mount with Jesus teaching about worrying. Indeed, even to the extremely poor, Jesus says not to stress over food or garments. God takes care of the birds and garments the lilies in a beautiful manner, and God’s children are definitely more important than the birds. Restless worrying cannot add even an hour to an individual's life. Jesus advises the listeners to trust God to give them what they genuinely need. Nonetheless, the setting of what we really need is the desire of God which could appear to be exceptionally unique from what we would like (Matthew 5:3-12).

In light of the ill impacts of worry on our lives, Jesus tells us to “take no thought” concerning those needs that God has promised to supply. Worry might harm our wellbeing, make the object of stress consume our thoughts, upset our efficiency, contrarily influence the way that we treat others, and diminish our capacity to confide in God. What number of ill impacts of worry would we say that we are encountering? The distinction between worry and certifiable concern is that worry brings us to a standstill yet having a concern for others directs us toward activity.

Jesus is not advising the people to stop working. Nor is he advising them to just sit inactively by in anticipation for God to extraordinarily give. He is not recommending that it is inappropriate to earn a living in order to support their families. He is not telling the believers that they ought not shrewdly put something aside for future necessities. With regards to the remainder of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is telling his audience members to assume responsibility for what is in their hearts and minds.

Christ says that believers should not live in tension with regards to these essential necessities of life. Life is about something beyond clothing and food. There is significance and reason regardless of whether we have these things. To live in stress over wealth that we do not have is living heavily influenced by wealth, rather than the control of God. Living to serve God incorporates confiding in him to give us what is required without living in dread and uneasiness.

Presently Jesus speaks about the natural world by giving an illustration. Birds do not plant, reap, or store crops. They have no coordinated framework for accommodating themselves past the second they are in. Yet Jesus says, they do eat since God takes care of them.

Jesus poses a sharp inquiry to the people: Are they not more important than the birds? The inferred answer is obviously yes, they are more significant than the birds. Now if God takes care of the birds, he will likewise take care of the people who are worth more than birds. Rather than living in tension with regards to these fundamental necessities, Jesus asks his followers to trust God to give them what is required in his timely manner and with the amount that is needed. Philippians 4:19

Here Jesus mentions one more issue with uneasiness, dread, and stress: that they are pointless. They do not help, nor do they work. Those feelings are undoubtedly feeble regarding the concern for actual needs. Uneasiness is a characteristic human reaction, particularly while we are considering how to take care of our loved ones. Given the circumstances, it is obviously true that worry all by itself cannot add a solitary hour to anybody's life. Stress is incapable of doing anything.

Obviously, many know that uneasiness is not just something we can eliminate. God knows this and sees that it can be hard to place trust in God when times are troublesome. Truth be told, for this reason Scripture is here to remind us of this. If being a Christian made every one of our feelings of trepidation and questions vanish, then there would not be an obvious explanation for God to remind us not to stress.

Clothing and food are a fundamental human need. In many parts of the world, even those that society considers poor, seldom have genuine worries concerning where to get garments or food. That was difficult for the poor in Jesus' day, and it remains so in many areas of today’s world. It is normal to anticipate that somebody in that position will encounter nervousness. It is something we will more often than not identify with.

Lilies sit idle, in contrast with how individuals obtain food and shelter. The lilies of the field develop without accomplishing any work or creating any garments for themselves. In any case, as Jesus will say, they are clothed with extraordinary magnificence. They are dressed precisely as God wants them to be.

Jesus' Jewish audience members would have known about Solomon's incredible and luxurious abundance from Israel's days of glory (2 Chronicles 9:3-4). In addition to the fact that Solomon was dressed in the best clothes of the world, his realm likewise streamed with gold and silver. He lived in extraordinary extravagance. Jesus affirms that the quality of the lilies' magnificence outperforms even Solomon's although they never do anything. Jesus brings the point home in the accompanying verse, God can and will give what is needed. That may not particularly be what we want (Matthew 5:3-12), however it is enough for us to achieve God’s will.