Can You Trust Him With This?
Matthew 6:25–34
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life…” — Matthew 6:25
Notice that word: therefore. Jesus knew exactly what His listeners were thinking after everything He’d just said about money and masters. But what about me? What about my needs? If I hold things loosely, what happens when I run out? Before the anxiety could fully form, He answered it.
“Look at the birds,” He says. “They don’t sow, reap, or store — yet the Father feeds them every single day. Look at the wildflowers of Galilee, blooming brilliantly and gone by tomorrow, yet clothed in a splendour that outshines Solomon’s wardrobe.” And then Jesus asks the obvious question: if God does that for birds and flowers — are you not worth far more?
The word for worry in the original Greek carries the sense of being pulled in different directions — a fragmented, divided, and scattered mind. That’s what anxiety does to us. It strangles our joy. It chokes our spiritual life. It throttles our relationships. And at its root, Jesus says gently, it’s a faith problem. Not because you’re bad, but because you’ve taken your eyes off how big and how good your Father actually is.
Corrie ten Boom — a woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps and lost nearly everything — wrote: “Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
The prescription Jesus offers isn’t passive resignation. It’s active trust: slow down, live one day at a time, keep an eternal perspective, and remember God’s faithfulness. Then Philippians 4:6–7 adds the practical step: pray, with thanksgiving. And the peace that comes? It doesn’t make rational sense. It guards your heart like a soldier on watch.
Consider: What worry are you carrying right now that you haven’t yet surrendered in prayer? What would it look like, practically, to hand it to God today?