Life More Than ___?
25005 QGA
Matthew 6:25-35 The Context: In The Sermon on the Mt. Jesus is challenging us to realize that we worry too much about temporary external things. He asks us to think about how God cares for His creation. Jesus is challenging His followers to realize the radical LIFE that living under His Kingdom rule means. Jesus briefly describes some of the details of what living for God looks like. In the middle of His comments Jesus illustrates His care for our life by describing God’s care of flowers and birds.
God Asks Us: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 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? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (Luke 12:24–28)
jne: On the surface Jesus is asking if I really believe that God can take care of me and all the needs of my life? Can God take care of all the real internal and external needs of my life? But fundamentally Jesus is asking if I am really seeing God at work in the real issues of my life and the world around me. Am I focused on the day to day tasks of eating and dressing and going about daily routines with a gray sameness? Jesus wants me to realize that seeing God working, ruling and reigning in me is where LIFE really is found. This is the essence of Jesus’ Sermon on The Mount.
Matthew 6:25-35 The Context: In The Sermon on the Mt. Jesus is challenging us to realize that we worry too much about temporary external things. He asks us to think about how God cares for His creation. Jesus is challenging His followers to realize the radical LIFE that living under His Kingdom rule means. Jesus briefly describes some of the details of what living for God looks like. In the middle of His comments Jesus illustrates His care for our life by describing God’s care of flowers and birds.
God Asks Us: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 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? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (Luke 12:24–28)
jne: On the surface Jesus is asking if I really believe that God can take care of me and all the needs of my life? Can God take care of all the real internal and external needs of my life? But fundamentally Jesus is asking if I am really seeing God at work in the real issues of my life and the world around me. Am I focused on the day to day tasks of eating and dressing and going about daily routines with a gray sameness? Jesus wants me to realize that seeing God working, ruling and reigning in me is where LIFE really is found. This is the essence of Jesus’ Sermon on The Mount.