There is no such thing as security, apart from God and citizenship in His kingdom. The best cure for worry is trust in God. If we do our part faithfully, if we make the kingdom of heaven first in our thoughts and lives, God will take care of us on our walk through life. He will graciously “anoint” our heads with oil (see on v. 17), and our cup of experience will overflow with good things (Ps. 23:6).
Compare Luke 12:31. The great purpose in man’s existence is that he “should seek the Lord, if haply” he “might feel after him, and find him” (Acts 17:27). Most men are engrossed in laboring “for the meat which perisheth” (John 6:27), for the water for which, when he drinks, he will thirst again (John 4:13). Most men “spend money for that which is not bread” and “labour for that which satisfieth not” (Isa. 55:2). Too often we are prone to make “all these [material] things” the main object of our search in life, in the vain hope that God will be indulgent with us, and, at the close of life’s journey, add to our brief span of threescore and ten years the eternal kingdom. Christ would have us make first things first, and assures us that things of lesser importance and value will be supplied to each according to his need.