And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin. The clothing anxiety is addressed through the flowers: lilies that do no productive labor — they neither toil nor spin — are clothed by the Father with beauty that exceeds Solomon's. The consider is an invitation to sustained attention to nature as a teacher of trust: the same creation that demonstrates the Father's care for birds now demonstrates his care for flowers. Luke 12:27 adds how they grow — the growth is the Father's doing, not the lily's striving. The flowers are not passive in a deficient way but passive in a trusting way: they receive what the Father provides without anxiety about its arrival.

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