The beloved physician Luke wrote how Jesus said, “Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are you better than the fowls?”, and in chapter twelve and verse twenty-five of his book Luke shared how Jesus asked a question about, “adding to your stature” where we read:
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
The verse reads, “And which of you with taking thought ...” Luke began with the words, “and which of you” or “and what person whether male or female who is within the crowd of people” “with taking thought” which means “by thinking anxiously, worrying or caring and providing by looking out for a thing”. Luke shared how Jesus questioned the crowd as to who among them that “worries, is anxious in thinking with carefulness”.
The verse goes on to say, “... can add to his stature one cubit?” Luke continued with the words, “can add” or “is able, capable and has power to join to, gather and increase” “to his stature” which means “to the person whether male or female's height and comeliness of tallness” “one cubit” or “a single measure of length which is equal to the distance from the joint of the elbow to the tip of the middle finger or about eighteen inches”? Luke shared how Jesus questioned the people listening to them which of them by “worrying and being anxious” could add “eighteen” inches to their “height”.
When we consider Luke's words in this verse, we see how Jesus asked this rhetorical question concerning the ability of person to “add” to their “height”. No one was able just by taking “anxious thought” to be “taller”, and even if they could, their “height” would only last for a lifetime. Jesus wanted people to know how God will take care of them, and His forming of their shape and size is not the most important aspect of man. God desires to have a personal, eternal relationship with every person through His Son Jesus, and those who believe and trust in Him will resign their “height” to Almighty God who knows what size is best for them.
Next time Luke shares how Jesus says, “consider the lilies how they grow”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until
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All references are from "Strongs Concordance".
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