Sufficient For The Day

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.  

Matthew 6:34 

How will worry influence tomorrow’s outcome? Christ is turning the thoughts of His audience from the earthly and temporal to the spiritual and eternal. He is addressing natural human thought. It is natural to worry about the future. Christ makes the pithy remark, ‘Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.’ He is essentially saying that whatever tomorrow brings, worry will not change it. He is contrasting worry with faith that brings us to seek first the kingdom. He had already illustrated His point by saying, ‘Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they.’ He went on to use the glory of the lilies of the field as another illustration of God’s provision. All throughout the passage Christ is turning our thoughts away from fearfulness about the future to faith in Him Who holds the future. What comes tomorrow will come whether we worry about it or not. ‘Tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.’ We have the privilege to know the Lord of tomorrow. He knows what we will face tomorrow and all the outcomes. If we can trust Him with our soul’s salvation, we can trust Him with everything that will occur. Therefore, we need not worry about tomorrow.  

Great God of Wonders, 
we rejoice that You see the end from the beginning. 
We praise You that all that will occur 
is in Your Almighty Hands. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning