“If that is how God cloths the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more cloth you – you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘what shall we eat?’ or ‘what shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” – Matthew 6:30-34
God makes a promise that He will take care of our needs, as long as we are following after His will. We are His children, whom He loves and gave His son up for, why would He give us a rock when we ask for bread? Yet, even knowing this promise, it is so easy to get caught up in everyday life. We start worrying about all the little things that the world has made so big. So many times these earthy worries are placed above God, we put them first, instead of seeking Him and leaning on Him with our whole heart. More and more I realize how much I limit my God when I depend on myself. He tells me to have faith and seek Him, to give Him all of my life. Getting caught up in the numbers, in what people expect from you, from all the different worries, we make so many excuses of why we need to do something, “But God.” How big is He? He is infinite, but how big is my God?
We ask God to show us what He is going to do in our lives, we want the full picture. But, if He gave us the full picture what faith would our lives require? None, because we would already know our lives from beginning to end. There would be no cliff to walk, or leap of faith that seems almost impossible. Instead, God gives us a vision and then says walk. He doesn’t give us the blueprint, but He asks us to trust in Him and have faith. God wants us to ask what He is doing in the here and now, so that we can be in constant communication, focusing on His purpose moment to moment. Not focusing on what will happen day to day, month to month, or even year to year.
This can be hard, to trust God with our whole lives, when we come from a culture where everything depends on you and what you do with your life. So many times we say “well I don’t feel God leading me, I don’t feel what His plan is for my life.” We feel like God has stopped communicating with us, that He no longer is walking beside us and directing our steps. Yet, God tells us right in this verse what we are to do and in those times of silence God is asking us, “Do you still trust Me, will you take the step of faith?” He says to seek Him and His righteousness, and we are to do it with our whole hearts. If we are truly seeking Him diligently, as it says in Hebrews 11:6, “He reward those who seek Him with their whole heart.” We are just required to continue in our walk and trust in His promise to finish in us the work that He has started.
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