Today is Good
The song said, “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.” But yesterday can be a troubling entity. It’s gone but it keeps trying to intrude into the here and now. Failures and victories of yesterday are troublesome if they do not stay in the past.
Yesterday often teams up with shame. The two want to remind you of your terrible past. But even if you chartered a deep-sea fishing vessel, you could not find your sins that God has forgiven and forgotten about.
Other times yesterday will team up with pride. Past victories are highlighted in your memories. You are tempted to rest and think about how good you are. But be careful that you don’t dislocate your shoulder while patting yourself on the back. Remember this. The Bible says that the pride of life is not of God but of the world and pride usually precedes a fall.
Tomorrow can be just as problematic as yesterday. Especially because you may not even be breathing tomorrow. Worrying about things that might happen will keep you from enjoying things that are happening. Jesus taught us that we should not worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will worry about itself.
However, today is the day that the Lord has made and it is good. The wise decisions you made yesterday will pay pleasant dividends today. The good choices you make today will yield a sweet crop tomorrow. So, live in the here and now for the glory of God and the glory of God will brighten your path today.
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:25-34 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.6.25-34.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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