Matthew 6:19-34 (ESV)
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, [20] but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. [21] For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
[22] "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, [23] but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
[24] "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
[25] "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? [26] Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? [27] And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? [28] And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, [29] yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. [30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? [31] Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' [32] For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
[34] "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
[34] "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
You heaven’y father knows that you need them all, yet Gentiles seek after them. God gives to all people even all evil people. The Christian realizes this and gives thanks to God. We need not be anxious about them. And yet so often we are. I know I get a bit anxious about these things from time to time. The anxiousness manifesting my covetousness, more often than not it is because I am not satisified with what God has given me. And why not? My new man always asks this of my Old Adam. Why is it that you should not be satisfied with what God has already given you? There is no good reason. God knows that I don’t deserve what he has given me so far, and yet he still does, and he gives me more.
Tomorrow? Why be anxious about it. Since boyhood it has always been my prayer that the Lord would come quickly, Maranatha. Tomorrow is in His hands too. I have today, and as Christ says today has enough worries for itself. Tomorrow is tomorrow. It isn’t that you should not plan for it. Tomorrow just might happen, you never know. It pays to plan for it, but not to be anxious about it. You do find in life that the best laid plans get changed on the morrow. But there is not reason to be anxious about it. Que sera, sera and all that jazz.
But the beauty of it is, that when tomorrow does come it brings a new day. So let yesterday be yesterday, today be today, and let tomorrow worry about tomorrow. But every day that God gives us is another day, and each day is a day of Grace, a day in which God has shown mercy, a day in which we have opportunity to tell others about the grace of Christ and his forgiveness. Because there on the cross Christ took care of the tomorrow we should really be concerned about if we had any sense about us, eternity. But that is a new day that leaves all behind for good.
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