It is a vicious cycle that Jesus wants to end in all of us! Such a lack of faith then in turn fosters the kind of self-reliance and materialistic idolatry that Jesus wants us to avoid. And, as we shall see, this desire for earthly things is itself a lack of faith in God. For it is this worrying that so easily leads to a desire to hoard such riches. So He does not just warn us about the danger of seeking earthly riches but also about the root problem of excessive worry about our needs. 19-24), the problem of desiring the earthly riches, often begins with worry about our earthly needs. When Jesus begins by saying therefore, or for this reason, He is indicating that the problem He has just warned us about in the preceding context (vss. NKJ Matthew 6:25a Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body, what you will put on. We see this in the first part of verse 25. We will see that He 1) admonishes us against worrying, 2) asks a series of probing questions arguing against worrying, and 3) asserts our true priority that alleviates worrying. But in the passage before us today we will see that Jesus doesn’t want us to worry. We just have a built in tendency to worry. Kelly illustrates well the problem that so many of us have. Introduction: Walter Kelly, creator of the old Pogo comic strip, once said: “When I don’t have anything to worry about, I begin to worry about that” (as cited here).
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