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Commentary from THE ANNOTATED
BOOK OF COMMON
PRAYEREdited by JOHN HENRY BLUNT
Rivingtons, London, 1884
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
The Gospel for this Sunday is also a harvest Gospel, pointing out that
true Christian forethought is that which is intimately associated with
dependence on the Providence of God. When the stores of the principal
provision for the year are gathered in, then comes the lesson taught by
Christ's own words, that sowing, and reaping, and gathering into barns,
is not the chief work of a Christian's life; and that God's bounty, which
feeds the birds of the air, and clothes the lilies of the field by other
means than their own toil, is the same bounty which is feeding and clothing
us by means of our toil. Forethought in respect to such things should
therefore be a forethought which is consistent with trust in God, and with
seeking first the things of His Kingdom.
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