Getting to Know the Father: Through Jesus.
The Father Cares for Every Detail of Our Lives
Jesus said: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25,
With these words, Jesus Christ calls us to lift our eyes above the daily struggles and see the Father’s faithful hand. The fowls of the air neither sow nor reap, yet they are fed. The lilies of the field neither toil nor spin, yet they are clothed with beauty greater than Solomon’s. If our Heavenly Father so tends to the birds and flowers, how much more will He care for His own children?
Jesus reveals an attribute of the Father that we as believers we should readily embrace: our Father is the God of not just enough; He is more than enough to provide for our every need.
Jesus said: “For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Matthew 6:32, He does not ignore our hunger or our needs. Instead, He invites us to trust His provision and to reorder our priorities accordingly; we have to move from fretting to believing. Again, Jesus said: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”Matthew 6:33,
This is not a call to neglect our responsibility, but it is a command to rest our hearts in the Father’s care. Jesus desires that as believers we come to the position in our lives where worry and anxieties do not have any hold over us. Jesus made it unmistakably clear that worry cannot add a single moment to our lives, yet faith opens the door to peace that the world cannot give.