Matt 6:34. “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own!”
- Most of our worries are about ⇒ Future ⇒ Finance ⇒ health.
- A good deal of human anxiety involves worrying about tomorrow.
- No point of stressing or anxious out for tomorrow. Since there is no means, we can guarantee our life with our human intellectual abilities.
- It’s challenging to tune into God if we are preoccupied with worries about the future. eq: “what may happen tomorrow” ” What I need for tomorrow.”
- ⇒ Rather than worry about tomorrow, focus on today and excite about how God provides for today. Since God never changes, He is able to provide for tomorrow too.
- Good wants our full attention and gratitude towards Him for today because today is His gift from Him, and tomorrow is His promise.
- If tomorrow is worrying itself for tomorrow, there is no point of concern why we should worry about tomorrow.
- TROUBLE ⇒ here is this verse, Trouble does not mean a moral evil; instead, it explains about the everyday schedule, activities problems.
- If we don’t need to worry about tomorrow, then who will take care of us? Matt. 6:32 says, Our Heavenly Father will. Just depend on God for daily sustenance. How => By Prayer
- Is it wrong to pray for tomorrow? No ! Supplication to God is the same as admitting our trust to His provision. Matt 6:11 ⇒ “Give us this day our daily bread”
- Past is already passed-we don’t live in the past. Today is what we have, so live today and enjoy God’s blessing, and tomorrow is secured in Gods’ hand and He will take care of it.
- “God does not abstractly guarantee the future; he deals with the needs of each today. This is the one-day-at-a-time perspective of the Lord’s Prayer which keeps so firmly in focus the immediacy of receiving from the hand of God. There is no need to worry about tomorrow because God will deal with it as the ‘today’ of that day.” [1]
- “Worrying about tomorrow does not help either tomorrow or today. If anything, it robs us of our effectiveness today—which means we will be even less effective tomorrow. Someone has said that the average person is crucifying himself between two thieves: the regrets of yesterday and the worries about tomorrow. It is right to plan for the future and even to save for the future (2 Cor. 12:14; 1 Tim. 5:8). But it is a sin to worry about the future and permit tomorrow to rob today of its blessings.”[2]
- “Three words in this section point the way to victory over worry: (1) faith (Matt. 6:30), trusting God to meet our needs; (2) Father (Matt. 6:32), knowing He cares for His children; and (3) first (Matt. 6:33), putting God’s will first in our lives so that He might be glorified. If we have faith in our Father and put Him first, He will meet our needs. Hypocrisy and anxiety are sins. If we practice the true righteousness of the kingdom, we will avoid these sins and live for God’s glory” [3]
References
⇧1 | John Nolland, The Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary on the Greek Text, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Carlisle: W.B. Eerdmans; Paternoster Press, 2005), 316. |
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⇧2 | Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 28. |
⇧3 | Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 28. |