You spend your life working, laboring, and what do you have to show for it?

What do we gain from all our work?

If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. It is useless.

The richer you are, the more mouths you have to feed. All you gain is the knowledge that you are rich.

We get to live our lives in darkness and grief, worried, angry, and sick.

We do all our work just to get something to eat, but we never have enough.

How are the wise better off than fools? What good does it do the poor to know how to face life?

So I am convinced that we should enjoy ourselves, because the only pleasure we have in this life is eating and drinking and enjoying ourselves. We can at least do this as we labor during the life that God has given us in this world.

A laborer's appetite makes him work harder, because he wants to satisfy his hunger.

So then, if we have food and clothes, that should be enough for us.

Maybe so, but it is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.

Here is someone who lives alone. He has no son, no brother, yet he is always working, never satisfied with the wealth he has. For whom is he working so hard and denying himself any pleasure? This is useless, too---and a miserable way to live.

It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the LORD provides for those he loves, while they are asleep.

Give us today the food we need.

"This is why I tell you: do not be worried about the food and drink you need in order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. After all, isn't life worth more than food? And isn't the body worth more than clothes?

So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.

Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not! There is nothing you can give to regain your life.

Then Jesus said to the disciples, "And so I tell you not to worry about the food you need to stay alive or about the clothes you need for your body.

"So don't be all upset, always concerned about what you will eat and drink.

Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart.

Leave all your worries with him, because he cares for you.