Do Not Worry About Your Life

Friday, January 2, 2015
Matthew 6:25-34 KJV 

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Our Lord is delivering the Sermon on the Mount and just spoke about serving God and riches. What three things does Jesus tell His disciples not to worry about? Why? (v.25-30)
2) What does Jesus repeat telling His disciples? Why? (v.31-32)
3) What does our Lord tell His disciples to do instead? Why? (v.33-34)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) What, if anything, are you worried or concerned about today? Make a list.
5) What is on your list that God cannot not handle? Please explain your answer.
6) What are you most concerned about, your problems or advancing God's  Kingdom on earth?

LIFE LESSONS
7) The Lord can handle any and every difficulty that we face in this life, but we must surrender those difficulties to Him.
8) When we take care of God's business, He will take care of ours.
9) We need not worry about the things that concern us in this life because God already has it under His control.