I’d love to hear your response! Is there anything in life even more essential to your well being than food and shelter? What’s the essence of your life? Is there anything even better than life to you? I’ve been pondering this passage particularly in light of just returning from a cruise down the Amazon River. If life is more than eating and the body more than clothing, then what is that “more”? What’s more for you? Got any thoughts? Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” (Matthew 6:25). I always thought contentment with “ whatsoever state I’m in” (Philippians 4:11) was the goal, but Jesus calls us to something higher! He challenges us to “ 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. especially if I had access to my camera and computer! □ ) How about you? That’s me! I could be content with a quiet corner of a small, warm home (. I-on the other hand-identify more with Eliza from My Fair Lady, who sang: My mother, who grew up on the western prairies with a fierce pioneer spirit, claimed as her theme songs “Don’t Fence Me In” and “Tumbling Tumbleweeds.” Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1964) I can get far enough in my thinking to understand that Jesus doesn’t want us to be all caught up in material possessions and to imagine that it’s possible to be content with simple food and shelter. This is one of the latter! How in the world can we, as humans, actually “take no thought” about the most basic aspects of our physical lives: Food and clothing? After all, doesn’t the Bible teach us that, “ having food and raiment let us be therewith content” (1 Timothy 6:8)? Or, in other words, “ As long as we have food and clothes, we should be satisfied” ( Names of God Bible rendering). Some of Jesus’s commands seem impossibly hard, but others seem simply impossible.
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