There are two days in every week that we should not worry about. Two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
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One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed. Forever beyond our control.All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. Nor can we erase a single word we said....yesterday is gone!
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The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow with its impossible adversaries, its burdens, it's hopeful promises. Tomorrow is beyond our control. Tomorrow's sun will rise either in a splendor or behind a mask of clouds...but it will rise. And until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow for it is yet unborn.
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This leaves only one day....today. Any person can fight the battles of just one day......... ..it is only when we add the burdens of yesterdays and tomorrows that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives people mad....it is the remorse of bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.
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Let us therefore live one day at a time in the Messiah.
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Matthew 6:25-34 --
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Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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.
2 comments:
Such a great reminder! Cast all fear on the Lord. He will sustain us!
I can be such a worrier! And it is about the simplest of things!
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