Watching the news reports can very easily make a person anxious, there doesn’t seem to be much good news anywhere in the world these days. All these negative sources of information can cause worry and make us wonder what is going to happen tomorrow. Although things were different in many ways in Messiah’s day, people had problems and worried just like they do today.

Messiah encouraged them with these words in Matthew 6:34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.

This passage rings true for us also, but is He implying that we are not to worry about tomorrow because we have enough worries today and to take on tomorrow’s worries will completely overwhelm us and cause extreme stress with such worry? 

Furthermore is Messiah suggesting we just worry about today? 

The last sentence of Matthew 6:34 in the King James Version

reads, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

In modern versions the translators try to put this into more up to date English, for example one version says:

Each day has enough trouble of its own. 

The word for evil is translated as trouble.  

In the Greek language the word used is kakia 

which refers to

an inherent evil meaning an evil that may not be expressed but which is always present. 

2549 kakía (from 2554 /kakopoiéō, “a wicked disposition”) – properly, the underlying principle of evil (inherent evil) which is present, even if not outwardly expressed.

[2549 /kakía (“malice”) shares the same essential meaning as 2556 /kakós (“wretched evil,” its adjectival cognate).]

With this Greek meaning in mind Yeshua/Jesus was saying, that is just the nature of the world we live in, every day there is trouble so we may as well expect it get used to it as there and there is nothing you can do about it.

In the Peshitta/Aramaic Bible, the word used for trouble or evil is bisha and is likely the word that Messiah actually spoke.

This word is a noun and has an a, an Aleph at the end of it which tells us there is a definite article present, e.g. ‘the’.

Yeshua/Jesus is saying in other words:

Sufficient unto the day the evil one is present 

Because the word evil/bisha

Old Aramaic באש

is often referring to our enemy the devil/satan and the bisha/ enemy is going to be just as present tomorrow as he is today. 

Aramaic Sin-Khata and Evil–Bisha were archery terms In Aramaic, “evil” (bisha -בישׁא) is conceived in terms of an action which is unripe, of a fruit that is either immature or rotten.  Sin and Evil in their original Aramaic context, are very similar to the Hebrew and Greek meanings, one being to miss the mark with an arrow. This calls us to be sensitive to the moment at hand, to carry out the right action at the right time.

To use the word bisha in this context, He is referring to the problems caused by someone we have no control over, in this case the enemy of our souls. Just as we get one attack by the enemy sorted out, then just we should brace ourselves for the one that will inevitably come next. We are warned that In this world we will have tribulation its not some strange thing that is happening to us, it’s the nature of the bisha, he comes to steal kill and destroy in every way he can.

“Sufficient unto the day” is an interesting turn of phrase.

In Aramaic, the word 

sufficient is sephaq. 

סָפֵק  Samek Pei Qop

Sephaq means to be sufficient, adequate, fit or to satisfy fulfill needs without deficiency.

Sephaq has the exact same meaning as the Greek word arketon

that is used here and comes from the root arkeo which means:

to be sufficient or enough. 

713 [e]
arketon
ἀρκετὸν
Sufficient
Adj-NNS

Strong’s Greek 713 highlights the idea of what is “enough” or “adequate.” In each inspired context the term presses believers to recognize God-appointed limits—whether in daily cares, expectations of discipleship, or time allotted to sin—and to respond with faith-filled contentment and resolve. In Matthew 6:34 the Lord Jesus assures His followers that each day’s “trouble” is bounded by the Father’s sovereign care. The term rebukes anxiety and commends confident dependence on our Heavenly Father’s daily grace. Embraced, it nurtures contented, holy, mission-focused disciples who rest in the adequacy of His daily grace, His divine provision. This notion of sufficiency extends beyond mere physical needs; it embodies a deeper philosophical and spiritual understanding of adequacy in the face of life’s challenges.

However the Pael form, (we would say tense), that sephaq is rendered here would indicate almost the opposite in meaning, that is: to be empty or lay bare. The word in Hebrew has the idea of waver or doubting because It’s taken from the Semitic root which has the idea of someone who is intoxicated and stumbles around.  Messiah is explaining that we are not even able to handle today let alone tomorrow, so we are not to worry about it, we are to let Him take care of it.

At this point we should look at the scripture again and read the previous verses to put this in its context. Yeshua/Jesus is encouraging us to seek the kingdom of God and not the things of this world and the enemy rules this world. We know that because Messiah called him the prince of this world. Matthew 14:30.

If you seek the things of this world the enemy will fill you with sephaq or emptiness and you will wander around aimlessly like a drunkard, accomplishing nothing and end up with nothing. In contrast if we seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness today, which is the day of salvation, we’ll establish an eternal victory and then we won’t need to worry about tomorrow. 

In Matthew 6:34

 He was saying don’t worry at all,

because worry is a useless waste of our time. 

He has overcome the world and the devil and in His triumphant victory we are to trust in Him, placing our faith in Him and His power to redeem not only our lives but in the fact that He can sustain us through the every day assaults that we will experience. He is totally and completely saphaq/sufficient for each and every need that we may ever have.

After all He is El Shaddai!

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משפחה

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I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

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