If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you, you of little faith?
Matthew 6:30 (CSB)
On Saturday Jesus pointed at the wildflowers. Today He finishes the thought.
The flowers are just grass. They’re here today, and tomorrow somebody burns them in the oven to bake bread. And God still dresses them better than a king. If God does that for grass that burns tomorrow, what will He do for His own children? The verse says “much more.”
Then Jesus gives the worry a name. He calls it “little faith.” He isn’t talking about the first fear we feel when bad news comes. That’s human. He’s talking about worry that settles in and takes over, that lives like we’ve got no Father. He isn’t saying we don’t believe. He’s saying our faith is smaller than what we already know about God. And He only ever says those words to His own followers (Matthew 8:26; 14:31).
So when the worry shows up, “what if God doesn’t come through this time,” we should call it what Jesus calls it: little faith. Then we should do what His followers did in the storm. They had little faith, and they still went to Jesus and woke Him up: “Lord, save us!” (Matthew 8:25 CSB). One father in the Bible prayed it in one sentence: “I do believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24 CSB).
And Jesus answers people with little faith when they come to Him. When Peter started sinking, “immediately Jesus reached out his hand, caught hold of him” (Matthew 14:31 CSB). He grabbed him before He said anything about his faith. God gave up His own Son for us. He isn’t going to hold back the clothes.