There's more to life than food and clothing

In the course of His ministry on earth, our Lord Jesus Christ, the greatest of God's messengers, reminded His disciples, thus:

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value that they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neigther toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in al his glory was not arrayed like one of these." (Matt. 6:25-29, New King Version)

Our Lord Jesus Christ's teaching is clear: There's more to life than food and clothing. To emphasize an all important truth, Christ pointed out how the birds are fed and the lilies in the field clothed by the Almighty Father. God's people then ought to entrust their worries unto Him whose loving-kindness is great and whose mercy is beyond compare.

This does not mean, however, that God tolerates laziness or promotes a parasitism of some kind, for birds are constantly on the watch for ripe grains to peck, and plants, unnoticed by the human eye, are created as such to silently manufacture their own food to promote growth and development that goes on the cellular level. The result, according to Christ is that "even Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." He was referring to the lilies.