another step to overcome worry is to live one day at a time.
matthew 6.34 (niv), therefore do not worry about tomorrow. tomorrow will worry about
itself. everyday has enough trouble of
its own. JESUS says don’t open your umbrella before it
starts raining. don’t start worrying
before you get there. don’t cross the bridge until you get to it.
every week there are two days you should never
worry about: yesterday and tomorrow.
concentrate on today. what JESUS
is saying is don’t worry about the future until you’ve learned to successfully
manage the present. today is the
tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
why should i live one day at a time? two reasons:
1. in worrying
about tomorrow and tomorrow’s problems, i miss today’s blessings. i’m so caught up in what’s going to happen
tomorrow, i can’t enjoy today.
2. you
cannot solve tomorrow’s problems with today’s resources. GOD has made our lives that we’re to live on a
day by day basis. that doesn’t mean you
don’t plan. you should plan for
tomorrow. JESUS advised it. you plan for tomorrow, but you have to live
in today. you cannot live in
tomorrow. don’t worry about it because
today’s resources are not sufficient for tomorrow’s problems. GOD gives you just enough grace, just enough
power for now.
remember when they got manna in the old testament? GOD gave it to them one day at a time. HE said they couldn’t store it up because HE
wanted them to trust HIM on a moment by moment basis.
the bible does not say, “give us this day our
weekly bread.” it says, give us this day our daily bread. what you need for today will be
sufficient for today. when you get to
the problem tomorrow, GOD will give you the power for the problem tomorrow. HE’s
not going to give you the power today for tomorrow’s problems. don’t worry about them. otherwise, you’re working on a situation that
GOD doesn’t give you the power to work on.
it's ok to plan for tomorrow. GOD wants you to plan. in proverbs HE shows that HE wants us to plan
and set goals, dream dreams, set objectives and move toward them. but you don’t worry about tomorrow’s
problems. you live one day at a time.
just a thought from the front porch…
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