6:25 所以我告訴你們,不要為生命憂慮吃甚麼,喝甚麼,為身體憂慮穿甚麼;生命不勝於飲食嗎?身體不勝於衣裳嗎?
6:26 你們看那天上的飛鳥,也不種,也不收,也不積蓄在倉裏,你們的天父尚且養活牠,你們不比飛鳥貴重得多嗎?
6:27 你們哪一個能用思慮使壽數多加一刻呢(或譯:使身量多加一肘呢)?
6:28 何必為衣裳憂慮呢?你想野地裏的百合花怎麼長起來,它也不勞苦,也不紡線;
6:29 然而我告訴你們,就是所羅門極榮華的時候,他所穿戴的,還不如這花一朵哩!
6:30 你們這小信的人哪!野地裏的草今天還在,明天就丟在爐裏,神還給它這樣的妝飾,何況你們哩!
'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? 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 'And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you--you of little faith?
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主耶穌這段話給我們很大的提醒:我們所擔憂的上帝都知道。
我們將福音傳給人的時候,有人會回答我們:「我每天位生活打拼,我哪有時間去做禮拜?」
不只窮人如此回答,富人也如此回答。許多人汲汲營營過一生,為的是財富的累積。可是這樣的追求使人忘記永恆的事,忘記將來離開這世界之後要往哪裡去,更忘記人有一位天父。
這位天父不僅是我們將來永恆中的依靠,也是今生重要的倚靠。要不是祂的賞賜,人一切的努力都是空空。要不是祂的供應,人有錢也買不到東西。所以,我們要來到祂面前感謝祂如此的眷顧。
祂不僅供應我們今生,更要賜給我們永生。藉由祂愛子耶穌基督的救恩,將永生賜下,讓我們來敬拜尊崇祂!