Sell your possessions and give to Charity [alms]. Store up treasure for yourselves in a heavenly account where moths and rust do not consume, and where thieves cannot break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
I am telling you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Think of the ravens. They do not plant, harvest, or store grain in barns, and God feeds them. Aren't you worth more than the birds? Which one of you can add a single day to your life by worrying? And why do you worry about clothing? Think of the way lilies grow. They do not work or spin. But even Solomon in all his splendor was not as magnificent. If God puts beautiful clothes on the grass that is in the field today and tomorrow into the furnace, won't he put clothes on you, faint hearts? So don't worry, thinking, 'what will we eat.' or 'what will we drink,' or 'what will we wear?' for everybody in the whole world does that, and your Father knows that you need these things. Instead, make sure of His rule over you, and all these things will be yours as well.These are such excellent and inspiring words to live by.
For more information on Q, I highly recommend Burton Mack's book The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins.
-VB
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