TAKE NO THOUGHT (2)

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Text: Mathew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, 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?_* 

Yesterday the Lord was speaking to us not to take thoughts on what to eat (Food) and Drink. Today, He shall be speaking to us about *RAIMENT* 

After the fall of man in the garden of Eden, we saw that man is no longer satisfied with the coverings (raiment)earlier provided by God. 

Adam and Eve had to go consult a tree for coverings. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.Genesis 3:7

This invention of sewing fig leaves to cover their nakedness was not from the Lord. It was from the knowledge of the tree of good and evil they took.

God's initial plan was to provide coverings(HIS GLORY) for man. And this He did until the fall of man. 

Today, raiment can be seen as anything that covers shame. Anyone without raiment walking on the street will be termed as insane person. 

The important question however is: can clothes cover your shame? The answer is an emphatic NO. Shame itself can be a clothe which came on man as a result of sin.  Adam was only trying to remove the shameful cloth (of Nakedness) by wearing fig leaves. And this has been the attempt of every man (without Christ).

Jesus therefore was communicating a simple principle on why we should not be taking  thoughts on something that can't cover the real shame. As much as God wouldn't want us naked in the physical. He also wouldn't want us to think that clothes are our coverings. We must come to the point where we know that God is our true  covering. Hence, we should desist from worrying ourselves about what to wear. (Deut 29:5). We should look at the cross and see how Jesus was striped naked for our shame (Mathew 27;28). 

He wore our shame on the cross. Your worries should not be what to wear, rather you should be thinking of how to be clothed by the GLORY of God which was man's initial clothing before the fall.

When you are clothed with expensive clothes without God's glory, you will still be ashamed. But when you are clothed with God's  Glory and no thoughts about what to wear, God will also clothe you in the natural.

 *YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS SO DETAILED ABOUT EVERY MINUTE DETAILS OF YOUR LIFE.* 


Bible reading: Mathew 6:24-34

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