You can review this week’s Scripture focus here – 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=NRSV

IV.

Rabbi Jesus identifies several categories of things to not worry about, 

“… do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear….. “

“… do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’”

How do you see people worrying about these things?  How does the worry manifest itself in how they conduct their lives?

V.

But, he seems to intensify what he is saying about folk,

“For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things…”

You might take worry as a passive thing.  But here Rabbi Jesus escalates this behavior to something active.  Whether you call it “striving,” or “grasping” or “putting all your effort there,” he points to such behavior occupying a prominent, probably the most prominent, thing in one’s life.

VI.

He had already asked, 

“Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”

So what is life and body, if more than food and clothing?

Putting aside for a moment what Rabbi Jesus might say, what do you say?

What is the essence of life and body?  What is the most fundamental to “strive for”?