Warning the content you are about to partake in may offend some, because in their wisdom, they refuse to heed Jeremiah 33:3
[3]Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATION!

Matthew 6:33 KJ21
But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

COMMENTARY!

One would think the command of Christ was enough to restrain us from this foolish sin of disquieting, distrustful care, independently of the comfort of our own souls, which is so nearly concerned but to show how much the heart of Christ is upon it, and what pleasures he takes in those that hope in his mercy, the command is backed with the most powerful arguments.

If reason may but rule us, surely we shall ease ourselves of these thorns. To free us from anxious thoughts and to expel them, Christ here suggests  comforting thoughts that we may be filled with them.

It will be worthwhile to take pains with our own hearts, to argue them out of their disquieting cares, and to make ourselves ashamed of them. They may be weakened by right reason, but it is by an active faith only that they can be overcome.

Consider this then:

1. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25. Yes, no doubt it is so he says who had reason to understand the true value of present things, for he made them, he supports them, and supports us by them and the thing speaks for itself.

Note, (1) Our life is a greater blessing than our livelihood. It is true, life cannot subsist without a livelihood but the meat and raiment which are here represented as inferior to the life and body are such as are for ornament and delight for about such as are for ornament and delight for about such we are apt to be solicitous. Meat and raiment are in order to life, and the end is more noble and excellent than the means.

The daintiest food and finest raiment are from the earth, but life from the breath of God. Life is the light of men meat is but the oil that feeds that light: so that the difference between rich and poor is very inconsiderable, since, in the greatest things, they stand on the same level, and differ only in the less.

(2) This is an encouragement for us to trust God wth food and raiment, and so to ease ourselves of all perplexing cares about them. God has given us life, and given us the body it was an act of power, it was an act of favour, it was done without our care: what cannot he do for us, who did that?

What will he not? If we take care of our souls and eternity, which are more than the body and its life, we may leave it to God to provide for us food and raiment, which are less.

God has maintained our lives hereto if sometimes with pulse and water, that has answered the end he has protected us and kept us alive.

OBSERVATION!

He that guards us against the evils we are exposed to will supply us with the good things we are in need of. If he had been pleased to kill us, to starve us, he would not so often have given his angels a charge concerning us to keep us.

COMMENTARY

Behold the fowls of the air, and consider the lilies of the field. Here is an argument taken from God’s common providence toward the inferior creatures, and their dependence, according to their capacities, upon that providence.

A fine pass fallen man has come to, that he must be sent to school to the fowls of the air, and that they must teach him! Job 12:7,8 (1) Look upon the fowls, and learn to trust God for food (Matthew 6:26), and disquiet not yourselves with thoughts what

you shall eat.

[1] Observe the providence of God concerning them. Look upon them and receive instruction. There are various sorts of fowls they are numerous, some of them ravenous, but they are all fed, and fed with food convenient for them it is rare that any of them perish for want of food, even in winter, and there goes no little to feed them all the year round. The fowls, as they are least serviceable to man, so they are least within his care men often feed upon them, but seldom feed them yet they are fed, we know not how, and some of them fed best in the hardest weather and it is your heavenly Father that feeds them he knows all the wild fowls of the mountains, better than you know the tame ones at your own barn-door, Psalms 50:11.

Not a sparrow lights to the ground, to pick up a grain of corn, but by the providence of God, which extends itself to the meanest creatures. But that which is especially observed here is that they are fed without any care or project of their own they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.

The ant indeed does, and the bee, and they are set before us as examples of prudence and industry but the fowls of the air do not they make no provision for the future themselves, and yet every day, as duly as the day comes, provision is made for them, and their eyes wait on God, that great and good Housekeeper, who provides food for all flesh.

OBSERVATION!

These also are God’s gift, and, as far as is good for them, are promised to all that seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, Matthew 6:33. Let young people learn to prefer grace to gold in all that they choose, because godliness has the promise of the life that now is, but the life that now is has not the promise of godliness.

How completely blessed was Solomon, who had both wisdom and wealth! He that has wealth and power without wisdom and grace is in danger of doing hurt with them; he that has wisdom and grace without wealth and power is not capable of doing so much good with them as he that has both.

Wisdom is good, is so much the better, with an inheritance, Ecclesiastes 7:11. But, if we make sure of wisdom and grace, these will either bring outward prosperity with them or sweeten the want of it.

God promised Solomon riches and honour absolutely, but long life upon condition (1 Kings 3:14). If thou wilt walk in my ways, as David did, then I will lengthen thy days. He failed in the condition; and therefore, though he had riches and honour, he did not live so long to enjoy them as in the course of nature he might have done.

Length of days is wisdom’s right-hand blessing, typical of eternal life; but it is in her left hand that riches and honour are, Proverbs 3:16. Let us see here:

[1] That the way to obtain spiritual blessings is to be dire for them, to wrestle with God in prayer for them, as Solomon did for wisdom, asking that only, as the one thing needful.

CLOSING OBSERVATION!

God that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. There is an inexhaustible fulness of grace and mercy in God, which the prayers of all the saints can never draw dry.

Whatever we may ask or think to ask, still God is still able to do more, abundantly more, exceedingly abundantly more.

Open thy mouth ever so wide, still he hath wherewithal to fill it. Note, In our applications to God, we should encourage our faith by a consideration of his all-sufficiency and almighty power.

According to the power which worketh in us. As if he had said, We have already had a proof of this power of God, in what he hath wrought in us and done for us, having quickened us by his grace, and converted us to himself. The power that still worketh for the saints is according to that power that hath wrought in them.

Wherever God gives of his fulness, he gives to experience his power. Having thus described God, he ascribes glory to him. When we come to ask for grace from God, we ought to give glory to God.

Matthew 5:3 NLT
“God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen in the name of Yeshua!