And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.
Matthew 6:28-29 (CSB)
On Thursday Jesus said to look at the birds. Today He says to observe the wildflowers. And “observe” is a bigger word than “look.” It means to study something until we’ve learned from it.
So what do the flowers teach? They don’t work. They don’t labor, and they don’t spin thread. In Jesus’ day, spinning thread was the slowest part of making clothes. Days of work before a single piece of cloth. The flowers skip all of it, and they’re still dressed.
And the flowers are dressed better than Solomon. Solomon was the richest king on earth (1 Kings 10:23). Everything he wore had to be bought and made. A wildflower’s clothes are given to it. And the flower wins.
Jesus isn’t telling us to stop working. Flowers can’t work. We can. He’s telling us to notice who does the dressing. God does.
So when the clothes worry shows up, “I have nothing to wear,” “the kids need new shoes again,” “I can’t show up looking like this,” we can do what Jesus said. Find a flower. Look at it closely. Then say out loud, “God dressed that.” If He does that for a weed, He isn’t going to leave His kids in rags.
And God has already given us better clothes than Solomon ever had. The Bible says everyone who belongs to Jesus has “been clothed with Christ” (Galatians 3:27 CSB). We get dressed in His goodness, not our own. The Father who dresses the wildflowers has dressed us in His Son.