A Timely Reminder

    Our church has been doing the Read the Bible for Life study during Sunday school time. The lesson I did today was focusing on the different teaching methods Jesus used (comparisons, hyperbole, parables, etc.).

    The passage that went with the teaching was Matthew 6:25-7:29. The bulk of the study focused on Matthew 6:25-34 about not being anxious tomorrow. I've read this passage many times since a child, but a couple of verses really stood out to me.

"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?"

Matthew 6:26

"And why are you anxious about clothing?

Consider the lilies of the field,

how they grow:

they neither toil nor spin,

yet I tell you,

even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

Matthew 6:28-29

    I have allowed myself to worry about things that are mostly out of my control. If I trust the God who provides for birds and flowers and sacrificed His Son for a relationship with me to give me eternal life, then I can surely hand my worries over to Him and trust Him to provide for and take care of the concerns I have.