Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 6:25

"Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?" — Matthew 6:25 (ASV)

“Therefore,” in order that our one Master may be served, we must cease from serving self and from the distressing care which self-seeking involves. Read the passage, “Be not anxious for your life.” Though we may take care, anxious, distressing care, we must not now. Our most pressing bodily wants are not to engross our minds. Our life is more important than the food we eat or the clothes we wear. God who gives us life will give us bread and clothing.

We should much more care how we live than how we eat. The spiritual should go before the bodily, the eternal before the temporal. What we wear is of very small importance compared with what we are. Therefore, let us give our chief care to that which is chief, indeed, our sole thought to the one all-absorbing object of all true life, the glory of God.

Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, —

It should be, "Take no distracting thought for your life."

What you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

You are obliged to leave your life with God; why not leave with him all care about your food and your clothing?