"You cannot be the slave of two masters."
You cannot be the slave of
two masters! You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to
one than the other. You cannot serve both God and money. I tell you not to worry about your life. Don't worry about
having something to eat, drink, or wear. Isn't life more than food or
clothing? Look at the birds in the sky! They don't plant or
harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in
heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth more than birds? Can worry make you live longer? Why worry about
clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don't work hard to
make their clothes. But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth
wasn't as well clothed as one of them. God gives such beauty to
everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown
into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do
you have such little faith? Don't worry and ask yourselves, "Will we have anything to
eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to
wear? Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such
things. Your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these.
But more than anything else, put God's work first
and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well. Don't worry about tomorrow. It will take care of
itself. You have enough to worry about today. Matthew 6:24-34 Contemporary English Version The Holy Bible (New York , NY: American Bible Society 1995) |