Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body… 1. The question arises, Is not the Christian character a provident one? 2. All this is done to drive us to live by the day: to let the day's affairs fill the day's thoughts. See the benefit of this. (1) As respects our pleasures. How can a man enjoy pleasure when he has his mind disturbed about the future? We must dwell on it undistractedly. (2) As respects your pains. That which makes pain painful is the thought that it will continue. (3) As respects duties. The secret of doing anything well is concentration. 3. We should have only to do with the sins of the current day. As with our sins so with our cares. 4. The trouble which comes is very often not the trouble which we expected. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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? |
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