NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

WHY WORRY?

(Matt. 6:25-34)

Don’t worry about life, said Jesus,

You shouldn’t have a care.

Don’t worry about what you’ll eat or drink,

Or even what you will wear.

Isn’t life more important than food,

And the body more important than clothes?

The birds of the air don’t sow or reap,

Yet what they need, the Father knows.

Are you not more valuable than they?

So why do you have such strife?

Who of you by worrying,

Can add a single hour to his life?

Why do you worry about clothes?

See how lilies grow without labor.

No one is dressed as fine as them —

Not even Solomon in all his splendor.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,

Here today and gone tomorrow,

Will he not much more clothe you,

You of little faith and much sorrow?

Do not worry saying, “What shall we eat?”

Or “What shall we drink or wear?”

For the pagans run after all these things,

God won’t leave you thirsty or bare.

But first seek his kingdom and righteousness,

Rest assured your needs are known.

Don’t worry about tomorrow,

Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Becky Wall