Lady Crosstalk
Well-Known Member
As provided in the OP, -- but it's MORE than faith in Jesus. WORKS ARE REQUIRED.
So who is preparing? Are we really going into the cataclysmic future thinking that Jesus will provide for our needs? HE already said that WE need to provide for our own needs (Luke 22:35-36) so who'd be so stupid to think otherwise? And if we're not preparing, then what are we doing, -- playing church?!?
The wise steward takes ardent action (Matt. 11:12). But who among us is wise? I've yet to find them ...
Bobby Jo
Yet, He also says in Matthew 6:25-33--
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?c
28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you."