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TAKE NO THOUGHT


Text: Matthew 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?_* 

One of the most difficult things for man is not to take thought. Both the young and the old are preoccupied with  thoughts about Life. Jesus warned His disciples not to follow the pattern of this world's system.  

If you critically consider how the world system runs, you will realise that its arrangements is such that exhaust man's energy on *Food* ,  *Drink* and *Cloth* .Please do not take these on the face value. Every man who takes thoughts are procccupied and pinned down by these 3 things-Food, Drink and Cloth :

 1&2 . *FOOD,DRINK* : Jesus quoted Moses in Mathew 4:4 that Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. This shows us that God wouldn't want you to live for bread alone.Though, your natural life on earth here is sustained by food and drink, but your real life(spiritual life)  can only be sustained by every word that proceeds from God's mouth. Jesus  said  in John 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 

You can see from above that food cannot keep you from death in the  long run. It is quite unfortunate that so many have laboured all their lives for the perishables.  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.John 6:27.

Food and dink only quench hunger and thirst of the body.  Man is a tripartite being, hence, food and drink can only take care for just one part of his three being- Body. Man is essentially a spirit, he has a soul and lives in the body. That's the reason Jesus came to give us life.  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;Ephesians 2:1.

I want to leave you with this questions today: 

WHAT ARE YOU LIVING FOR? 

WHAT IS THAT THING THAT SATISFIES YOUR APPETITE. 

WHAT IS THE MOTIVATION BEHIND ALL YOUR LABOUR TODAY?

Bible reading: Mathew 6:24-34

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