Hamilton Smith

The Apostle faces the many things that in a world of change and need may give the believer occasion for care and anxiety. In the presence of these things he would have us to be care-free, for he says, be careful for nothing." Then we learn that this is only possible by taking "every thing" to God in prayer with supplication and thanksgiving. It is not simply "some things" or "difficult things" but "everything" is to be taken to Him – the small worries as well as the great trials. Whatever weighs upon the spirit at the moment, whatever fills us with dread and foreboding as we think of the morrow, all is to be poured into the ear of God.