Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Matthew 6:26

“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”

Matthew 6:26 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Matthew 6:26, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Matthew 6. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
  • Psalms 147:9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
  • Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
  • Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
  • Psalms 145:15The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
  • Psalms 104:27These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
  • Luke 12:6Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
  • Matthew 6:32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
  • Genesis 1:29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be…
  • Matthew 7:9Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
  • Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
  • Psalms 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

More to meet God in Matthew

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.