Magnificent Prayer #335
Magnificent Prayer #335
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34
Let us think only of the present and not permit our minds to wander with idle curiosity into the future. The future is not yet ours—perhaps it never will be. We expose ourselves to temptation in trying to anticipate God, and to prepare ourselves for things which He may not destine for us. If such things should come to pass, He will give us light and strength according to the need.
Why should we desire to meet difficulties prematurely, when we have neither the strength nor light as yet provided for them?
Let us give heed to the present whose duties are pressing. It is faithfulness to the present which prepares us for faithfulness in the future.
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON
Pray About It: Often our prayers have too much to do with our future. Jesus taught us to pray that God would “give us this day our daily bread.” The manna was always gathered just for the day ahead, not for tomorrow.
The future shouldn’t be ignored, of course, but the best way to prepare for the uncertainty ahead is to live properly in the present.
Often Satan tempts us with doubts about our future: what will happen to our health? What if there’s a recession and our income decreases? What if, what if, what if? These two words are the preface that Satan uses to instill fear in the believer.
Pray for your needs today and walk confidently into tomorrow.
What [God] forbids is, that care which, sad experience shows, wastes the blood and drinks up the spirits; which anticipates all the misery it fears, and comes to torment us before the time. He forbids only that care which poisons the blessings of today, by fear of what may be tomorrow; which cannot enjoy the present plenty, through apprehensions of future want. This care is not only a sore disease, a grievous sickness of soul, but also an heinous offense against God, a sin of the deepest dye. It is a high affront to the gracious Governor and wise Disposer of all things; necessarily implying, that the great Judge does not do right; that he does not order all things well. It plainly implies, that he is wanting, either in wisdom, if he does not know what things we stand in need of; or in goodness, if he does not provide those things for all who put their trust in him. Beware, therefore, that you take not thought in this sense: Be ye anxiously careful for nothing.
JOHN WESLEY
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