Don’t Carry Tomorrow Today

Isn’t it exhausting to worry about tomorrow? We can be sitting in an ordinary moment and suddenly our minds can go somewhere else. Our bodies are here, but our minds are living in a day that hasn’t arrived.

Jesus speaks directly to that in Matthew 6. He says “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Notice that Jesus doesn’t say tomorrow won’t have trouble. Jesus instead just gives us a simple command to not carry tomorrow in today.

Tomorrow will have its own grace and we often forget that. We think if we have it all figured out ahead of time that we will finally have peace. We try to anticipate every problem, prepare for every scenario, and control every variable to feel secure.

But Jesus reminds us that worry doesn’t give us control, it just gives us the illusion of it.

If God is attentive to the birds and the flowers, how much more attentive is He to His children?

This doesn’t mean that we should never plan or prepare for the future. It just means we don’t have to fear the future.

We can prepare for tomorrow without being consumed by it. There’s a difference between preparation and worry.

Worry says “I have to figure out everything because I don’t trust what will happen if I don’t.” While preparation says “I will do what I can and trust God with what I can’t.”

Ask yourself today “what am I carrying right now that actually belongs to tomorrow?”

Whatever it is, place it back in God’s hands.