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20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night ayour soul will be required of you; bthen whose will those things be which you have provided?’  
21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, aand is not rich toward God.”  

Do Not Worry

22 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, ado not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.  
23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
24 Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and aGod feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?  
25 And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
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It is rather ominous because it is entirely possible for you and me to be so focused on eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, and what they encompass, that we even become wealthy, but there is no treasure in terms of God. The focus is wrong. Verse 22 begins to make this very clear.

Eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage—what Jesus says here agrees with that. There are things that are more important than eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. But it is not food, it is not clothing. Life is worth more than that. There is more to life than those things. Then He goes on explaining how God has provided for the creation:

Excerpted from The Mark of the Beast

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