John Newton once said... We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterdays burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
How easy it is to be bogged down by the regrets of yesterday, and to be immobilized by the uncertainties of tomorrow, as we go through the day alternating between "Why did that have to happen yesterday?" and "What if I can't handle what happens tomorrow?" Neither your regrets or your fears have anything to do with what really matters: the remaining hours of this day. Each day has enough trouble of its own, Jesus said. No point in worrying about tomorrow when today's plate is already full -- with trouble, yes, and opportunity, too. And so much potential. And most of all, mercy. Today's plate is full of God's mercy. It comes new every morning, washing out the remnants of the past, offering strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
Decide today that you will give no weight to what's already gone, that you will spend no emotional energy on what is yet to arrive. Instead, invest everything you have today in today. It makes this day a whole better, and tomorrow a whole lot brighter.
And you can say with John Newton ...
The Lord has promised good to me
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
.......
* The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:23)
* But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)
* Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34)
How easy it is to be bogged down by the regrets of yesterday, and to be immobilized by the uncertainties of tomorrow, as we go through the day alternating between "Why did that have to happen yesterday?" and "What if I can't handle what happens tomorrow?" Neither your regrets or your fears have anything to do with what really matters: the remaining hours of this day. Each day has enough trouble of its own, Jesus said. No point in worrying about tomorrow when today's plate is already full -- with trouble, yes, and opportunity, too. And so much potential. And most of all, mercy. Today's plate is full of God's mercy. It comes new every morning, washing out the remnants of the past, offering strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
Decide today that you will give no weight to what's already gone, that you will spend no emotional energy on what is yet to arrive. Instead, invest everything you have today in today. It makes this day a whole better, and tomorrow a whole lot brighter.
And you can say with John Newton ...
The Lord has promised good to me
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
.......
* The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:23)
* But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)
* Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34)