Do Not "Take Thought": Receive Righteousness

"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)

Why do we not take thought for these things?

Because we who believe on Jesus' death and resurrection have His Holy Spirit:

"To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

"While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word." (Acts 10: 43-44)

and then

"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Romans 14: 17)

Paul was not implying that we must do without meat and drink, of course, but that we need something more than food -- we need life, and that more abundantly (John 10: 10)

So, in the Holy Spirit we have life, and we receive the Spirit by faith:

"That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." (Galatians 3: 14)

The opposite of faith is works in the flesh, and when we look to ourselves, to our flesh, to our works, then we take thought:

"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." (Galatians 2: 16)

We do not need to take thought, but instead keep receiving the gifts of righteousness and grace:

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

and then

"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5: 17)

Do not take thought for anything -- keep receiving His righteousness and grace, and the rest is added unto you!