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HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, "THEREFORE I TELL YOU, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WHAT YOU WILL EAT, OR ABOUT YOR BODY, WHAT YOU WILL WEAR. FOR LIFE IS MORE THAN FOOD, AND THE BODY MORE THAN CLOTHING. CONCIDER THE RAVENS; THEY NEITHER SOW NOR REAP, THEY HAVE NEITHER STOREHOUSE NOR BARN, AND YET GOD FEEDS THEM. OF HOW MUCH MORE VALUE ARE YOU THAN BIRDS! AND CAN ANY OF YOU BY WORRING ADD A SINGLE HOUR TO YOUR LIFE SPAN? IF THEN YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO DO SO SMALL A THING AS THAT, WHY DO YOU WORRY ABOUT THE REST? CONSIDER THE LILLIES, HOW THEY GROW; THEY TOIL NOR SPIN; YET I TELL YOU, EVEN KING SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT CLOTHED LIKE ONE OF THESE. BUT IF GOD SO CLOTHES THE GRASS OF THE FIELD, WHICH IS ALIVE TODAY AND TOMORROW IS THROWN INTO THE OVEN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL HE CLOTHE YOU- YOU OF LITTLE FAITH! AND DO NOT KEEP STRIVING FOR WHAT YOU ARE TO EAT AND WHAT YOU ARE TO DRINK, AND DO NOT KEEP WORRING. FOR IT IS THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD THAT STRIVE AFTER ALL THESE THINGS, AND YOU FATHER KNOWS THAT YOU NEED THEM. INSTEAD STRIVE FOR HIS KINGDOM, AND THESE THINGS WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU AS WELL." |
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