Consider the Lilies: Matthew 6:25-34
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, 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 clothes?
Jesus had just finished teaching about treasure and masters. Now he addressed the universal human disease: anxiety.
Do not worry. The command appeared six times in these verses—not a suggestion but a directive.
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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