Bible Study Led By Greg

This past Wednesday, we gathered at Canterbury House for a bible study led by our very own Greg, who I've affectionately nick-named "Greg the Baptist."  Greg took us through Matthew 6:25-34.  You all know it.  It's the passage in the Bible that tells us not to worry about tomorrow, that God will provide for us, no matter what.  It got me (and many people in Canterbury) thinking about how to cope with this difficult message.  Everyday, I look around at the homeless on the streets on Charlottesville and think, how do they feel about what the gospeler claims?  We are fortunate to have support systems on which we can rely when tomorrow appears uncertain; but when that support vanishes, when it's no longer available, how would it affect the way in which we interact with each other.  It seems to me that this verse has been taken and used by those of us who are well off enough that we don't have to worry about tomorrow.  Honestly, it's quite a comforting message that allows us to abide in a sense of security; however, the way in which most of us interact with this verse feels contrived, that we use it for purposes for which it wasn't intended.  I don't have an answer to how we should use this message, but - what I do know -, is that we can't regard it as simply as we do.  Yes, it's quite nice to think that we don't have to worry about the future, but what if we did?