I’ve been considering tomorrow and beyond lately.
Not knowing what tomorrow brings.
Jesus specifically told us not to worry about tomorrow,
but I do it anyway to my own demise.
I try not to.
I have to keep submitting my thoughts to Him.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:5
Sometimes I let my mind wander and wonder
and it ends up in no good place.
Submission to God.
Learning to submit to Jesus,
which is letting Him be in charge of what is really best for me.
Relying on Him.
He has things all figured out.
If I try to figure them out, they can get tangled.
The Sermon on the Mount is most magnificent sermon ever spoken.
It is filled with commands and exhortations and warnings
that we all should know and be aware of, directives that we should all live by. From Hell to caring for the least of these and everything in between.
I think it would be a wonderful piece to memorize
in case our bibles are ever taken away,
then we could recite it to others and quote it
and share it and all of its wisdom and glory.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says,
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 other words, Don’t borrow trouble.
We have enough things to deal with each day.
God knows the beginning and the end.
He knows what tomorrow brings.
In that glorious sermon, Jesus tells us what we should do instead.
He always does give us a replacement behavior.
That is so important, a replacement behavior.
Here it is, right in the same verse:
…for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof…
I have been caught up in the selfishness of the flesh,
worrying about what is going to happen to my flesh.
The Lord reminded me to pray for those suffering today.
I then read between the lines, that by worrying about myself and my flesh,
I’m wasting prayer time that could be filled with compassion
for those suffering today.
Gulp.
That sounds pretty simple, but it isn’t.
It takes humility, which takes a bowing of the flesh,
which takes a realization that God is in control and that He is running things.
That’s a big order.
That realization comes from reading God’s word
and understanding His power and authority
and that He is directing our steps.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. Psalm 37:31