Worrying — Matthew 6

Daily Meditation 1,146–4/27/2025

I always marvel at cityscapes and chuckle. All those office and apartment lights on at all hours of the night, a constellation of anxiety. “Are we going to make enough this quarter to avoid laying people off?” “My daughter won’t listen to me and is failing in school.” “My doctor tells me I’m to start chemo soon and need to change my diet.” All these worries keeping all these souls awake all night.

As I always like to assert, these DMs are not explicitly Christian, but the Bible (and religious texts, broadly) absolutely form an excellent moral foundation for society and life and within them are wonderful lessons for those open-minded to look.

Matthew 6 as a whole is an outstanding chapter of the New Testament.

Every morning, I do a 1–2 minute reading of a portion of the Bible and share it to YouTube. This morning, I opened into the NT looking for a nice bit to read, and voila! Matthew 6. My eyes fell to the verses about worry.

As we say, God works in mysterious ways, because imagine my stunned surprise when I go to church and Miss Joy calls the children for the children sermon and literally reads the exact same section and has a similar message!

So, here we are.

Matthew 6: 25–27

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”