Daily Devotional

Step back and see the whole passage as one argument. Matthew 6 opened with a question about audience, who are you performing for, and it ends with a question about trust, who do you believe will take care of you. They are really the same question. Both ask whether God is real enough to live for and real enough to trust with your future. Worry over reputation, wealth, and security all run on one pagan assumption: there is no one who sees, no one who knows, no one who provides.

Jesus answers that assumption with the gospel itself. There is Someone. He is your Father. He knows what you need before you ask. He feeds the birds and clothes the lilies, and He raised His Son from the dead. Verse 34 does not promise that tomorrow will be easy. It promises that tomorrow will be the Father’s responsibility, not yours. Each day has enough trouble of its own, and for each day the Father will be adequate.

This is where Christ shines through the whole passage. He is the One who perfectly trusted His Father, who in Gethsemane laid down anxiety for obedience, who went to the cross to absorb the penalty of every faithless, anxious moment we have ever given ourselves to. His resurrection is the proof that the Father is in charge of the outcomes, even the outcome of death. For those who belong to Christ, the verdict is settled. You have a Father who is adequate, whose grace is sufficient, and who will not forget you. So, trust Him with today, and let tomorrow rest in His hands.