Why Take Thought? You Are Under Grace!

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Matthew 6: 24)


When we take thought for our lives, we are under law, convinced wrongly that our lives are our responsibility.

Yet we are no longer under law, but rather we are under grace:

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." (Romans 6: 14)

How does sin measure up with the Law?:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3: 20)

and then

"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." (Romans 7: 7)

Through Christ's death on the Cross, the Old Covenant has been fufilled, replaced by the Second Covenant of Grace and the Spirit:

"But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." (Hebrews 8: 6)

and

"In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8: 13)

The elements of the New Covenant were spelled out in the previous verses:

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

"And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

The law goes from the stone to our hearts, but this law is not the Ten Commandments, but the law of liberty (James 1: 25; 2: 12), the new commandment of Love (John 13: 34), because He  has loved us first (1 John 4: 19).

God the Father has promised to be "a God" to us -- that means He has our past, our present, our future, our needs, our wants all taken care of.

So, if you are "taking thought for the morrow", then you are neglecting the truth that He is watching out for you -- a matter of unbelief.

For this reason, Jesus stressed:

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

Or, in other words:

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."

Remember your righteousness in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21), and you will take thought for nothing in your life.