I have found that when I start to think about the future and all that I should do, or all I have to handle, or all the things that need to get done, I start to feel a heavy weight and burden.
Everything begins to feel too overwhelming. It's especially difficult when I know I have to deal with someone else, and I wonder how or if I am going to handle it.
I realized that there is no thought I can think that is going to help me through any future situation, because it is not here yet. That doesn’t mean I don’t make a plan for tomorrow, if a plan is needed, but after that I am powerless over the rest. I can't control the future by my plans!
Trying to protect myself from tomorrow by thinking about it today does not work for me at all. I sure used to try to make that work but it never did!
I am promised His grace to make it through, but the grace I am given is for now, this moment. He is with me forever, one second at a time. He will never leave me or forsake me, which means when I get to tomorrow He will go through it with me then, no matter what comes my way.
If my thinking is, what if this happens or what if that happens what will I do, it will surely lead me into a bad place inside.
The only thing that can help me is to put everything beyond right now into His hands, get my head into the moment I am in with Him, and take my thoughts off of the future. There is nothing I can do about tomorrow, but He is with me in the now, so I enjoy Him there.
If I keep my inner focus on Him now, then when I get to the future, He will give me the grace to make it through it. If I try and do it the other way around and make the future okay by thinking about it now, there is a good chance I will make the present into a miserable, tormented mess.
Matthew 6:34 says, "Do not worry about tomorrow.”Remember He wants us to be like the lilies and the birds.
I have been able to accomplish this is by getting my head in the moment and I put my attention and affection on Him, in the moment.
I rest in Him right now. If I do that instead of trying not to think about tomorrow it is much easier. Anything I try not to do just makes it harder not to do it.
For example I stop, focus on Him step back into Him and say to myself no matter what, me and the Lord will handle it together one second at a time.
Then the only thing I do is to just let go of it, and know that He will meet me when I get there and walk with me through it.
And really that is all that we need. He is with us always, even to the end of the age.
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