25 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? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? (Matthew 6:25-26 KJV)
William Burkitt’s Commentary
The next sin which our Saviour cautions his disciples against, is immoderate care for the things of this life, such a solicitous and vexatious care for food and raiment as is accompanied with diffidence and distrust of God’s fatherly providence over us, and provision for us; and the arguments which our Saviour uses to dissuade from this sin, are many and cogent, laid down in the following verses.
Learn here, 1. That Almighty God will provide for every servant of his, food and raiment, and a competency of the comforts and conveniencies of life.
Learn, 2. That want of faith in God’d promise, and a distrust of his fatherly care, is a God-provoking and wrath-procuring sin.
Learn, 3. That notwithstanding God’s promise to supply our wants, we not only may, but must, use such prudential and provident means as are in our own wants. Dr. Hammond’s Pract. Catech.