1CORINTHIANS 7:32 says, "But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord."

Many marriages are destroyed over the anxiety of the temporal things of life. See what it says in the next verse. "But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife," This is to say we are not to be filled with anxiety over material necessities of this life, as though there were no heavenly Father to provide.

Anxiety is "concern respecting some uncertain future event, which disturbs the mind and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness. It expresses more than uneasiness or disturbance. It usually springs from fear or serious apprehension of evil, and involves a suspense respecting an event, and often, a perplexity of mind, to know how to shape our conduct," Webster's Dictionary.

Perplexity means one is at a loss of what to think. The word thought as used in our text means a state of uneasiness and disturbance, or concern respecting the future. It is a fear or a serious apprehension of evil.

Our anxious thoughts are usually about some uncertain event in the future; now the Lord is telling us to take no thought of these things, have no such anxiety about these things; we are to lay it all on the Lord and walk by faith, not by sight.

Some people are so anxious about the future that they are totally wrapped up in their concern. Jesus tells us plainly that we should have no thought or concern about our future needs.

When we profess faith in God and live in anxiety, we show we cannot trust God for our material necessities in our daily life. We are demonstrating unbelief.

Oh, how many people are double-minded. They have faith, they have a religion, and they believe they can trust God for eternity and eternal things, but they must trust in themselves for the necessities of daily life.

This is serving two masters if we serve the god of self for our material needs and the God of heaven for eternal needs.