52 Week Bible Reading Plan

Traditional (Exodus 23-25)

Chronological (Genesis 49-50; Exodus 1-2)

Matthew 6:30

  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

  A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple.  How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus?  By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.  Consider what Jesus said, "if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you" if you keep your relationship right with Him.  Every time we have gone back in spiritual communion it has been because we have impertinently known better than Jesus Christ.  We have allowed the cares of the world to come in, and have forgotten the "much more" of our Heavenly Father.

  "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" (Matthew 6:26).  Their main aim is to obey the principle of life that is in them and God looks after them.  Jesus says that if you are rightly related to Him and obey His Spirit that is in you, God will look after your "feathers."

  "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:" (Matthew 6:28).  They grow where they are put.  Many of us refuse to grow where we are put, consequently we take root nowhere.  Jesus says that if we obey the life God has given us, He will look after the other things.  Has Jesus Christ told us a lie?  If we are not experiencing the "much more," it is because we are taken up with confusing considerations.  How much time have we taken up worrying God with questions when we should have been absolutely free to consecrate on His work?  Concertation means the continual separation of myself to on particular thing.  We cannot consecrate once and for all.  Am I continually separating myself to consider God every day of my life?