“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.” — Matthew 6:34
In our Christian lives, often times, we have been reminded from God’s Word that we should “Trust God.” Yet, why is it that there are moments in our journeys when we still tend to fail and falter again and again, ending up being brokenhearted?
When I was younger, I was that type of person who often have anticipations and assumptions that most of the time, would become my unnecessary worries in life. In my youthful mind, questions such as “what do people presume about me? Will they like me? Will I be healed from all my sickness? Is this or that possible? I even worry about my future. Will I ever enter in a good school? My questions were never-ending that my mind was always preoccupied with things that later on I realized, did not even come to pass.
It’s seems that I did not fail to give time to figure things out in the present. More so, those of tomorrow and the uncertainty of the future. I used to ponder series of events. “What will happen next?” seemed to be my tag line. Those moments, when they come unexpectedly, I would be bothered and feel irritated. As a result, I would think of different ways to solve the problems on my own terms. You know what? It was never healthy and successful. Never.
It’s end point was always a failure – greatly weakening to the restless mind and weary soul.
There were moments when I found myself crying and feeling miserable. I was exhausted not just mentally, but emotionally and physically. I often fell seriously ill.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against to planning for what’s ahead. It’s good, actually. There’s nothing wrong to cogitate and have vision, for what’s for the morrow or next year. Being concern with matters that impact our lives is not worrying. But making them dwell in our minds and hearts fueling us to work on our own is “worry.” As I mature in the faith, I have come to experience how God cares for us that much that He reminded us in Matthew 6:30-34 how we ought to trust and depend on Him for all the cares of our lives. Experiences taught me this hard lesson of casting all my cares upon the Lord because He do cares (1 Peter 5:7).
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 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.”
While impossibility fronts our way, we prone to forget what God can do, and rely on our limited human comprehensions and worry. And as we worry, we end up making our own kind of systems to arrange or settle things down. But is it ever healthy and fulfilling? No. Or if so, it’s just for a moment. Why is that, then?
That’s because sometimes or should I say, many – a – times, we set barriers on what God has in store for us, when the path gets tough. We choose to rather doubt God’s promises, presence, and enablement. Simply “Faith on Him” is all that He asks from us to release, so that we’ll be able to claim the victory in life that we’ve been all waiting for.
Yes, we’re on the same page. Just “faith.” Yet the sad thing is, we often take for granted what a simple “faith” can do. We falter to see what miracles awaits when we apply and use our faith on God, for we deem that it’s too light and such an easy repairer of diverse nuisances. But again, that’s what He only requires of us—faith. Remember, God is the Beginning and the End. He is in in control. He already knew what we have been all longing for, what we need, what our cries loud in the morning, noon or eventide, and though before we think of such. He knew us already, even before we are born. And not only that, but it means He is also powerful enough to provide everything that we need or even ask for.
When we face challenges in life, may we be recalled and comforted upon these wonderful phrases from the scriptures, “that God, having no effort at all, is able to feed the fowls of the air, is able to nurture the lillies and cloth the grass of the field and in the last phrases, saying, are ye not much much better than they?” Oh, Wow! Just imagine what love He displays for you as His child, if you will just have faith on Him?
When trust ends, worry begins. When faith stops, worries arise. Are you willing to acknowledge God and cling upon Him, being a Father, a Friend, who cares?
Prayer: God, I praise You, for these admiring and heart-warming Words of Yours, where we can be reminded and comforted, that truly, worrying should not be our thing and our lifestyle, for it is never beneficial, after all. May You find us not relying upon situations, things, men or our own, where there is no gain of genuine peace and joy, but to You, may we fix our whole confidence, to the One who is in control and is able to provide everything we ask for and need of. Amen.
“May God find our shoes stomping down our worries and stepping out in faith.”
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I’m Jahdiel, a Christian Filipina teacher whose passionate about music and writing.
I desire to know and love God more and more and to be mightily used in the mission field and ministries. By His enabling grace, I want to be an encouragement and a channel of blessing to others who want to journey with God.
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