Luke 12:22-31 ~ why are you anxious about the rest

Luke 12:22-31

English Standard Version, David Cochran Audio

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. ²³ For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. ²⁴  Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! ²⁵ And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? ²⁶ If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? ²⁷ Consider the lilies, 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. ²⁸ But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! ²⁹ And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. ³⁰ For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. ³¹ Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Centenarian documentation agrees with this philosophy. The Discovery Channel interviewed the people living to be 100 or more years old and found centenarians felt their troubles did not come to stay, but would eventually work out. This faith led them to look over their lives and agree trouble had a way of working itself out.

Proverbs 8:32
"Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways."

Proverbs 19:16
He who obeys instructions guards his life, but he who is contemptuous of his ways will die.

Luke 8:21
He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice."

John 20:29
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”




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