The eagerness and the anxiety

We live in a world of eagerness and anxiety, in a world that runs fast. We see many cities like New York and São Paulo where you work 24 hours, where the streets are always full, where the eagerness is incredible, people who have up to three jobs to support their families and make them live a decent life. But, there is a desire that goes beyond all this: “The insatiable desire for money.” 

Jesus touched a lot on this subject, and is that we can come to feel so eager for money that we can completely deviate from what is really important: God. That is why in Matthew 6 Jesus tells us that we can not serve two masters and this is referring to money. Why is it that Christ spoke so much on this subject? He did it because most of the men feel great desire for wealth.

Christ said:

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:25-26

There are people who spent the last Christmas trying so hard to buy the best clothes, to eat the best food, even people who could not afford those expenses. And Christ makes a comparison with the birds of the sky, which do not work, however, they are sustained. In other verses He also talks about the lilies of the fields, referring to the fact that not even Solomon dressed himself with such glory.

However, all beauty is destroyed, we work for so many things, but in 50 years we will look in the mirror and we will be completely wrinkled. The point here is that none of this should be our concern, much less the center of our lives.

We must worry about getting hold of eternal life.

When Jesus calls us to lift our eyes and observe the birds of the air, He is not merely offering a poetic illustration; He is reminding us of the profound truth that human value is rooted not in possessions but in divine care. The problem with the constant pursuit of wealth is that it blinds us to this reality. We begin to measure life according to what we have instead of who we are in God. Many people spend their days anxiously calculating how to get ahead, how to achieve more, or how to maintain a certain image, and in that constant struggle they lose the peace that Christ freely offers. True rest is not found in a bank account or a paycheck; it is found in trusting a God who feeds the birds, clothes the lilies, and cares infinitely more for His children.

This is why Jesus redirects our priorities: He wants us to understand that life has a deeper purpose than the accumulation of temporary treasures. The human heart was not designed to carry the burden of anxious striving. When material things become our central pursuit, they eventually exhaust our strength and consume our joy. Christ invites us to look beyond the visible and place our hope in what endures. Eternal life, fellowship with God, and a heart aligned with His will—these are the treasures that neither moth nor rust can destroy. If our days are filled only with the pursuit of wealth, we will reach the end of life realizing that the things we valued most were the very things we could never keep. But if we invest in what is eternal, we receive a reward that time cannot diminish.

Therefore, the call of the gospel is not merely to abandon worry but to replace it with faith. Jesus does not say, “Do not worry,” and leave us empty-handed; He immediately reveals the antidote: “Seek first the kingdom of God.” This means aligning our desires with His purposes, trusting His provision, and living with the confidence that our Father knows exactly what we need. When we choose this path, the grip of material anxiety begins to loosen, and we discover a joy that cannot be purchased and a peace that cannot be manufactured. Eternal life is not only our future hope—it is the lens through which we must interpret every earthly concern. Only then do we truly understand what it means to live free from the insatiable desire for money and fully anchored in the care of our heavenly Father.