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Readers Theater, Matthew 6:25-34
Seek First the Kingdom of God
by Dr. Ralph F. WilsonPart of a study on the Sermon on the Mount
READER 1 | Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. |
READER 2 | [sing song] Worry, worry, worry |
READER 3 | [sing song] Fret, fret, fret |
READER 2 | Worry |
READER 3 | Fret |
ALL | [heavily] Sigh! |
READER 1 | Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? |
READER 2 | Look at the birds of the air; |
READER 3 | Little birds. |
READER 1 | They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, |
READER 2 | and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. |
READER 3 | Are you not much more valuable than they? |
READER 1 | Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? |
READER 2 | Who can add a foot to his stature? |
READER 3 | Or even a day to his span of life? |
READER 1 | And why do you worry about clothes? |
READER 2 | What'll I wear? |
READER 3 | My clothes are getting worn out. |
READER 1 | See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. |
READER 2 | Toil or spin. |
READER 3 | Spin or toil. |
READER 1 | Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. |
READER 2 | In splendor! |
READER 3 | In glory! |
READER 1 | If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, |
READER 2 | Here today. |
READER 3 | Gone tomorrow. |
READER 1 | Will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? |
READER 2 | So do not worry, saying, |
READER 3 | 'What shall we eat?' or |
READER 2 | 'What shall we drink?' or |
READER 3 | 'What shall we wear?' |
READER 1 | For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. |
READER 2 | But seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. |
READER 1 | Seek first |
READER 2 | Seek diligently |
READER 3 | Before anything else in your life |
READER 1 | The Kingdom of God |
READER 2 | God's Reign |
READER 3 | God's righteousness |
READER 1 | And all these things will be given to you as well. |
READER 2 | Given to you, |
READER 3 | Added to you. |
READER 1 | Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, |
READER 2 | Tomorrow |
READER 3 | Tomorrow |
READER 1 | For tomorrow will worry about itself. |
ALL | Each day has enough trouble of its own. |
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