Worry Me

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.

I think it was easier to say that back in those days. You had a Roman soldier with a sword in front of you and you had to deal with it. Travel from Rome to Israel by land took months. Travel from Israel to America took over 1400 years.

Today we can fly from America to Israel in about thirteen hours. A nuclear warhead can make it in about three hours. Hey, but not to worry, we can track those things by satellite, so we can fret for the whole three hours before it explodes. So worrying about tomorrow seems ridiculous since the world can end today.

Does worry fix things? I have my own theory about how we got into this mess we all live in now. We worried about tomorrow and forgot to take care of now. We wasted the now back when it would have done us some good. Too late, can’t go back and claim a do over. It doesn’t work that way.

So now we have more to worry about, more problems with fewer solutions. We have tried everything to fix tomorrow except take care of today. If we really want to fix tomorrow, then let’s prepare those who will be living in it after we are gone. We will never fix tomorrow but if we raise up Godly men and women who can take care of that now moment, then when tomorrow comes, they will deal with it in the now.

Do not tell me it is too late. That is the defeatist attitude of the devil who distracted you from your responsibility towards today in the first place. I do not know what I will have to face tomorrow, I can only see what is in front of me this day.

I’ll see you tomorrow if tomorrow comes, but for now, I’ve got things to take care of today.

2 thoughts on “Worry Me”

  1. Something my dad used to impress upon me–I’m thankful.
    “Yesterday is past–what lessons have I learned–Today is here and what will God teach me today–Tomorrow NEVER comes. Then he would add–even when you say the word NOW, it is past before you are finished saying it.” Ephesians 5:16 urges us to “redeem the time”.
    Worry does nothing toward changing the future, but it robs me of my joy of today. I loved your post–so right on!

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