Consider this.
The great secret of living a happy, healthy, holy, and fruitful life is living without worry about the past and without anxiety concerning the future. It is an unnecessary distraction to worry or be anxious about tomorrow. There are men who waste their last hours on earth fretting over a morrow they never see! If we are preserved till the morrow, will it not bring with it tomorrow's God?
What good can your worry do?
It does not empty tomorrow of its problems and trials, but it empties today of its strength and comfort. Worrying about tomorrow does not enable you to escape future trouble, it only weakens you and makes you unfit to cope with those challenges when tomorrow eventually comes. Worrying about tomorrow often leads to hurtful imagination which produces wrong thinking and self-induced negative prophecies and tormenting fear. Don't try to cross the bridge before you get there, but cheerfully carry the cross of today and leave the future to God.
We can ask for strength to finish today's duty. Our business is with today; we can have divine supply for today's consumption. To import the possible burden of tomorrow into the duties of this day will decrease or deplete the strength which is meant for only today's responsibility. When tomorrow brings its burden, the God of tomorrow will bring with it sufficient grace and strength. Today will require all the vigour we have to deal with its immediate "evils" or problems; there is no need to import cares from the future. To load today with trials that have not really arrived would be to overload it.
Anxiety is dangerous, but anxiety about things which have not yet happened is doubly dangerous, an unnecessary venom that poisons and destroys us. Worry about the future is useless; it achieves nothing. It is a pure waste of energy. Worrying about the future cripples you in the present; it lessens your efficiency with regard to today.
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