Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:25 (CSB)
Yesterday Jesus said nobody can serve two masters, God and money. Today He says what that looks like when money is tight. We’re not to worry.
The last few verses were for people with plenty. This one is for people without enough. Both can end up serving money. One piles it up. The other lies awake over it.
And Jesus gives a reason not to worry. Life is more than food. Our body is more than clothes. God gave us our life and our body, and neither one came from our worrying. He gave the big things without us asking. He’s not going to forget the small things that keep them going.
“Don’t worry” doesn’t mean we stop planning or stop working. Jesus is talking about the worry that eats at us. “What if the money runs out?” “What if I lose the job?” “What about the bills in March?”
So when those “what if” thoughts show up, we should set them next to what God has already given. Then we can turn it into a prayer: tell God the worry, out loud, in plain words, and ask Him for what we need (Philippians 4:6). Then do what today needs and leave the rest with Him.
Jesus lived this verse first. He went forty days without food in the desert, and He still trusted His Father to feed Him (Matthew 4:4). And the Bible says we can hand all our worry to Him “because he cares about you” (1 Peter 5:7 CSB). He isn’t just telling us not to worry. He tells us to hand it to Him.