Don't do the "What If?"

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious 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? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6)

Jesus was not anti-planning.  After all, He talked about "counting the costs."  But He was (and is!) definitely anti-worry.  Nothing disolves faith and hope like worry.  Worry in essence says: "God doesn't know; God doesn't care; God could not do anything about it even if He did." All of the above, of course, are not true. By His very character God knows all, loves us, and is all-powerful. It all begins in our hearts and minds when we say not only that we are not enough, but also that He is not enough.  We in this society centered on stuff are especially prone to this.  Again, this exhortation falls in lin appropriately right after yesterday's on not seeking stuff as our fulfillment in life.  Don't set your eyes on the stuff, or worrying you won't have enough of it; set your eyes on God, who made it all, owns it all, and provides for His own.