“Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”
Matthew 6:31-32
In today’s passage, Jesus brings up a relationship that unbelievers (Gentiles) do not have. They worry about the basic necessities—food, drink, clothing. But we have spiritual blessings that far outweigh material ones as well as a confidence that cannot belong to the non-Christian. Through our repentant faith in Christ, the heavenly Father has become our heavenly Father. He takes care of the animal and plant kingdoms, and he loves his children infinitely more (see Matt. 6:25–30). Therefore, we should not be anxious (see v. 31). We have no need to worry about our basic provisions (see v. 32). What supports this confidence in our heavenly Father’s personal care is the gospel. The redemptive work that Jesus completed to deliver us from the penalty of sin also rescues us from the orphanage of the Evil One and places us into the family of God.
We were not always his children. Before we were born again, we were “children of wrath, like the
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