The Sin of Over Carefulness Concerning Temporal Objects
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The carefulness against which believers are admonished in our text is that spirit of excessive anxiety—that spirit of disquieting fear and oppressive sorrow, which temporal evils or the prospect of them is so apt to excite in the mind, and which is contrary to that patience, resignation, and hope which we are called to exercise towards God. The word in the original is still more expressive of this than in our common translation. The exhortation is to be understood in a qualified or modified sense. It relates obviously to temporal interests and objects.