Wesley Corpus

18. "Take no thought" of this kind, no uneasy thought, even "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 meat, and the body than raiment" If then God gave you life, the greater gift, will he not give you food to sustain it If he hath given you the body, how can ye doubt but he will give you raiment to cover it More especially, if you give yourselves up to him, and serve him with your whole heart. "Behold," see before your eyes, "the fowls of the air: For they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns;" and yet they lack nothing; "yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they" Ye that are creatures capable of God, are ye not of more account in the eyes of God of a higher rank in the scale of beings "And which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature" What profit have you then from this anxious thought It is every way fruitless and unavailing. "And why take ye thought for raiment" Have ye not a daily reproof wherever you turn your eyes "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven," (is cut down, burned up, and seen no more,) "shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith" you, whom he made to endure for ever and ever, to be pictures of his own eternity! Ye are indeed of little faith; otherwise ye could not doubt of his love and care; no, not for a moment.