Why?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 

I don’t really worry about clothes, and I don’t know anyone who does.  Of course, I’m sure some do, but they probably also worry about food and health, as well.  So what is Jesus referring to, here?  Sweaters, pants, shirts?

Clothes are the stuff we wear that cover our shame of being naked.  It’s the covering Adam & Eve made to cover themselves after they had broken fellowship with God. And it’s something we all deal with, feeling ashamed when we fail in our walk with Him, and try to somehow get in His good graces once more.

Jesus refers us to the flowers out in the field.  The first reference was a bird – who doesn’t sow or reap.  And this second analogy is a flower – which doesn’t labor or spin.  He’s painting a picture of an entity at rest.

He then says that this picture at rest is beautiful.  In fact, he says that Solomon in all of his splendor (which is indescribable) doesn’t compare to the beauty of a flower blooming in a field.

Jesus covers our nakedness, our shame, and our unworthiness and makes us beautiful.  There isn’t any amount of work or success we can achieve to be beautiful in his sight.  We just are.

And when we grasp that knowledge, we’re at rest, and we don’t worry.

It seems we are usually doing the opposite of everything required to be at peace – and that is standing still and being fed and clothed by our Father.