Today, I am reading and commenting on  Luke 12-13.

Jesus warns us against worrying about material possessions.  Yesterday, I touched on one of the themes which Jesus comes back to again and again:  that we should love those who abuse us.  Today, we have another one of His recurring themes: do not worry.  In particular, He tells us not to worry about what we will eat, or drink, or wear, because God knows that we need these things.  Instead, we should seek God’s kingdom, we should seek to do God’s will.  We should expend our resources on things which have value before God.  Jesus tells us that we will value more highly those things upon which we spend our resources.  If we spend our efforts and money to acquire material things, we will value those things.  On the other hand, if we spend our efforts and money on others, we will value others.  While it is true that we will spend our efforts and money on those things which we value, we often miss what Jesus is telling us here.  If you wish to value that which God values, spend your money on it.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.