Mathew Chapter six....continues 6

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?   28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

 34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

When we read gospels we can understand that the real divine principles can be read very vividly from the nature. All the principles we can see in the natural and social environment can be uploaded to the spiritual plane and use it there in spiritual way, to that extend nature is the first edition of The Bible. So we can abstract many principles, if we do it very carefully, from our natural as well as social environment; the above mentioned verses are an example for that fact. Don’t think that human life is similar to that of the other living creatures and plants, when we read this or similar parables. As we know, human life is controlled not only by material environment but by a non-material environment by which human can influence the former. Both the environments have the same principles to function.

The processes of imagination and thought happen in the non-material environment. These processes help us to process the material world for our requirements like shelter, clothing and food as mentioned in the above verses. Otherwise, we use very extensively this spiritual faculty (non-material faculty) to transform material world. In turn, the processed material world or the world of commodities influences this non-material sphere destructively, contributing worry, anger, resentment, hate, envy etc. negatives to this sphere. These affect the human welfare dangerously. When our faculty of imagination and thought engage in the processing of material world, it creates material values; that is a truth but not spiritual values. The values known as spiritual values, some time known as moral values, are created not in the material environment, in commodities, but in the non-material one which exists in human beings. So the faculty of imagination, thought etc. has to be used extensively in the non-material environment to create spiritual values in order to make possible human welfare to its full swing. For this purpose Jesus called the people who were busy on Galilee sea shore to the mountain top, to transform or process human being by processing the non-material world exists in them, or creating spiritual or moral values in human beings. Means, bringing people more close to non-material world, known as kingdom of God.

Look in the verses, when we begin to think about what to eat, drink and wear, worry also begin to follow. ‘Worry’ is the symbolic representative of all other negatives. Here Jesus advises the followers to abstract the required principle from the life of birds and plants. What is that? Each and every member of the animal as well as vegetable kingdoms has its own offices to function or fulfill.  They not only acquire energy by the form of food from their environment but execute or fulfill some offices by providing services to their environment. What they acquire from their environment is what they needed to exist in order to fulfill their offices that help other members in that system to exist. This is known as ecosystem. None of them toil, spin, sow, reap and gather to barns, means they do not gather more than what they needed, they do not participate in the processing of material world - production of commodities (commodities are, often, not essential goods). If they had begun to do so, all the ecosystems would have been sabotaged and utmost destruction would have been the result. But they exist without encroaching and exploiting one another, maintaining the right things in relations – righteousness. So they get what they needed to exist.

In the same way we have to withdraw from the extensive and intensive activities of processing the material world, producing commodities or material values, that sabotage the balance not only in the material environment but in the non-material environment also, and active in the processing of non-material world (Kingdom of God) producing moral or spiritual values that lead us to maintain righteousness. This fact has been mentioned in verse 33, ‘But seeks first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you’.

Mathew Chapter six....continues 5

19  “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust  destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
 22  “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23  but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
 24  “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Here in these verses three things are stated, the first one about laying up treasures, second about eye or vision and third about service.
 
The verse 19 is a complex sentence according to the English grammar. Means, in a complex sentence there will be a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. The subordinate clauses qualify something that belongs to main clause. Here the subordinate clauses ‘where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal’ qualifies the 'earth' in the main clause ‘Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth’. What does it mean? On earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal means, on earth where physical changes and unrighteousness prevails there you should not lay up for yourselves. If there is any place on earth there physical changes do not occur and righteousness prevails there you can lay up treasures for yourselves. Otherwise you should not lay up for yourselves, but for others. Verse 20 says this same truth in the reverse order and the place where physical changes do not occur and righteousness prevails is named as heaven. And one important thing is the verse 21. If your treasure is there in unrighteous changing world, then your heart is also in that unrighteous changing world. If your treasure is in a righteous non-changing zone, your heart will also in righteous non-changing zone.

But this is the matter of a vision that specifies in verses 22 and 23. If your eye, your vision, is good, whole your body or whole your activities will be so, in light. Your all activities, whole body, are led by your vision. If your eye, your vision, is bad whole your activities will be in darkness or all the activities will be of darkness, a heart in unrighteous changing world. Those who have a good eye, vision, always will be in the righteous zone and serve there, God, other wise, in unrighteous region where money is the primary consideration. Any way nobody can give equal consideration for both. Either serves the money, unrighteous zone or the righteous zone, God. Those who serve money use God as a tool for making money and as their vision, eye, is perverted, they twist all divine principles to justify their activities and cheat genuine devotees.