No Worries about Riches

Matthew 6: 24  “No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!”

25  “That’s why I’m telling you to stop worrying about your life—what you will eat or what you will drink—or about your body—what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn’t it, and the body more than clothing?

33  But first be concerned about God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well.

Riches in the world today is very important, but in the verses above God is telling us to choose Him and not be concerned about riches. Jesus is not wicked, he knows that one needs riches to purchase things, neither is He naive to make us think that all we have to do is not worry and riches will come. Rather He is teaching us here as we will see in subsequent verses things we can do that help us be confident about riches and thus we can easily choose God.

In verse 26 of the same chapter, he tells us to "Look at the birds of the sky: they don't sow or reap or gather in to barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Now, it is easy to assume that the birds do nothing and they just get fed, but that would be a wrong notion. What birds I have studied do when their chicks hatch is to go out and find food from the earth by hunting, it is as if they have a level of optimism that when they go out each time they would find food from our heavenly Father through the earth  to feed themselves and their chicks. As the chicks grow the parents teach them to fly and at a point when they have mastered it, they teach them to hunt for food by themselves. If one uses them as anology, one can see how that humans have a similar pattern, a child is born and the parent/guardian could be responsible for their physical needs and then their education (which is in all areas) until the child is ready to go out 'hunting' on its own. This I consider to be the physical aspect of things

In verse 28 of the same chapter, it says learn how the wildflowers of the field grow, they don't labour or spin thread... The key phrase here is to 'learn how the wildflowers of the field grow'... How do they grow? photosynthesis. They require, earth, water, carbon iv oxide and sunlight. Now it is my belief based on what I have seen in scripture that using photosynthesis as an analogy especially in Christian spiritual light, the sunlight represents the Spirit of truth, the water and carbon iv oxide which is food for the plants represents the Living Water and the scriptures on our lips, and the soil represents the heart. All these are part of the promises of the new covenant mediated by Jesus Christ for us if we say yes to it. This I consider to be the Spiritual aspect of things.

Therefore, our motive, that is the driving force is to choose to serve God and to have a relationship with our heavenly Father, thus love, thus seeking first the kingdom of God and its righteousness  (vs 10: thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven) and all these things (riches) will be received.