6:27,28
As well as God caring about us, worrying doesn’t actually do any good! No one can make their life better by worrying about it. Yet most (all?) of us have wasted an awful lot of time worrying, and caused ourselves much needless anxiety. Jesus then applies His lesson about the birds to the flowers. We all recognise that there are many beautiful types of flowers, and can marvel at them. Yet the flowers spent no time worrying about how to become so beautiful!
6:29,30
Men (and women!) spend great amounts of effort on trying to achieve beauty. Solomon created many great things, but none of them matched the beauty of nature. So if God provides beauty for the flowers, will he not also look after us? Moreover, flowers are here for only a short time, and yet God provides them with great beauty. “Oh you of little faith!” Notice that faith here is not believing things without evidence, but looking at the evidence that is all around us and deducing the truth from that. The problem is not that God has not provided sufficient evidence, but that we do not have eyes to see it!
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