Thought for Tuesday, June 26th

June 26, 2012

Not A Tomorrow Kind of Thing

Have you ever noticed how tied in knots we can get over trying to figure out what is going to happen in the future: in fact often so much so do we get focused on these types of things that we miss the reality of what is happening right in front of our face on the day we are currently experiencing.

As Christians I sometimes wonder if we miss what God is trying to say to us today, because we are so busy waiting for Him to tell us about something that is still months down the road.

There are so many opportunities surrounding us each day that illuminate and illustrate God’s blessings, mercy, grace and love, but we miss them because we aren’t paying attention.  Our focus is down the road, around the bend or maybe even over the rainbow, but it certainly is not on the here and now and the present real world where God is moving and working in our midst.

“God has made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

-       Isak Dinesen

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:  And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew 19:28-30

Wouldn’t it be a shame to stand before God one day with our little list of things we wish we would have experienced only to have Him say you were right there and it happened, but you missed it because you weren’t paying attention?  You were to busy thinking about the tomorrows rather than living in the today.

Today is the day the Lord has made and given to us – let us learn to rejoice and be glad in it.

Today’s Prayer

Father, you’re more beautiful than diamonds, more precious than silver and more costly than gold; yet often I do not cherish and experience the very moment I have with you because I am focused on something in the future:  help me not to miss today and give me the grace, strength and faith I need to leave the tomorrow to you.

“My life is in You Lord
My strength is in You Lord
My hope is in You Lord
In You, it’s in You

I’ll praise You with all of my life
I’ll praise You with all of my strength
With all of my life, with all of my strength
All my hope is in You “

-  Lyrics from ‘My Life Is In You Lord’ by Daniel Gardner