June 8

Matthew 6:31‑32
“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things”— Matthew 6:31, 3231Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (Matthew 6:31‑32).
WHEN God is known as Father, anxiety disappears. The love of His heart has led Him to engage to see His children through all the changing scenes of life, meeting every requirement for their peace, happiness, and contentment as they in turn seek to walk in fellowship with Him. This is no encouragement for slothfulness on our part. We are to walk before Him as obedient children who can count on His unfailing grace. His Fatherhood embraces all who are born of the Spirit through faith in His blessed Son. It is a mistake for unsaved, unregenerated men to claim relationship with Him, though He longs to reveal Himself as the Father to all men everywhere, but they can know Him only through Christ (John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)).
What would we think of an earthly father who had the care of little children and left them to worry as to how they should obtain the necessities of life? The children know that a loving father makes himself responsible to provide for their needs. So it is with our Heavenly Father.
“He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim:
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.”