Quality Life Starts Now -- In Him

"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?" (Matthew 6: 25)

Jesus tells us to "take no thought" or rather "do not worry" about your life.

Then Jesus expounded on the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, God's creatures whom he feeds and clothes. Now, the birds do go and get their food, and the flowers take in the sun and produce their lovely flowers.

We are not called to do nothing in our lives:

"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." (2 Thessalonians 3: 10)

When Jesus said:

 "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them." (Matthew 6: 26)

He was pointing out to an agrarian and domestic audience that they went about their lives prompted by the life force within them. Birds by nature sing and forage for food, they do not toil or strive contrary to their nature in order to live from day to day.

In short, they do not "worry" about their lives, but live!

Jesus then said:

" Are ye not much better than they?" ((v. 26)

We can answer "Yes" because God gave His Son for us (John 3: 16).

Through His Son, we receive His Life:

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

and

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14: 6)

Jesus now lives His life in every believer, and through Him, we receive all things:

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 31-32)

and

"According as his [God's] divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:" (2 Peter 1: 3)

As we walk by faith in His righteousness, letting Jesus live through us, we find that He leads us to do the very things that will cause us to prosper:

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. " (Matthew 6: 33)