Matthew 6:25-34
Do Not Worry
25 “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? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 13:44-46
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.
Surrounded in the teaching of Jesus is the story of the beautiful wild flowers...The wild flowers of the field do not labor or spin, but are of great beauty...Not even Solomon in all his splendor was could dress like a wild beautiful flower in the field...
Molly Wolfe Hungerford, in her book Molly Bawn in 1878, maybe the first to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder...But no matter who said it or when it was first said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
Beauty is something that can stop us and make us pause and look and think -that this is beautiful...Then we go about our day, maybe thinking of this beauty, and maybe not...Life moves us on and time furthers us away from the thought of this beauty...But the power of beauty can and does draw us back to that beauty or another beauty, again and again...How does one account for that stopping and bringing us back again and again?...When we see beauty and the beauty in our minds that leave us over time, and then at a later time we will be drawn back into another beauty, or maybe the same one...Is there Something that is causing that stop, that pause, that desire to hold on to that beautiful sight or sound we have seen or song we have just heard?...And beauty seems something we desire to have and repeat and be reminded of over and over...
Like the merchant, who saw the great beauty of the hidden treasure, we will do everything possible we know in trying to keep the Kingdom of Heaven...Stopping and pausing will not be enough...The Kingdom of God and His righteousness is much more than the beauty of this world...So when it comes to God and to His Son, I think everyone will see Their Beauty...Everyone will behold Their beauty, when we are in Their Presence...I believe we will not only stop in the LORD and His Son's Presence, but we will permanently stop and see Their glory...We will want to worship this Great Beauty...