NOTES for Mat 6:31-32
Let us remember the prophet's words. "Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and followed vanity, and became vain, and did not say: 'Where is the Lord, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through and where no one lived?'" (Jer. 2:5-6).
The Lord always nourishes us, and we ungratefully forget this, apparently crediting everything to our own efforts. But the wilderness truly could be an image of our life, if not for what the Lord gives: the generous Lord, the loving Lord. Although why say "could be"? It is, because our life is an exodus from slavery to sin into the promised land, "from which flow milk and honey."
But how then, some may say, can we explain that disorderly and godless people have everything we lack, and have it in abundance? Because that very abundance harms them, depriving them of the priceless thing we have: spiritual joy, perfect joy, the joy of being poor for Christ's sake. And no one can take this joy away, for there is nothing that will separate us from the Lord. Everything earthly can be taken away. But "neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38, 39)