Do Not Worry, a Reflection on Matthew 6:32-34

Yes, the rent comes due, the utility bill must be paid, clothes have to be replaced. (I'm granting that personally I may have more concern about just what those replacement clothes look like that Jesus would think that I needed to).

But, he was thinking about our thinking when he said, "So do not worry about tomorrow." Let us remember he's not in any way asking us to blow off the needs of our community or to live as if what we do doesn't matter. Rather he's making a distinction between healthy worry and unhealthy worry:

...this command "do not worry about tomorrow" is not an invitation to finesse the exam or waltz into the job interview unprepared. Rather, it speaks to the deeper. more basic fear that something is out there in the future that can destroy our basic worth as a human being, something finally stronger than God's care, some silent killer shark swimming toward us from the future....
Those who know that God summons the sun to rise are confident that, whatever tomorrow brings, it will also bring God with it..... (Thomas G. Long, Matthew).