Day 3: Sufficient abundance
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own (Matthew 6:34).
Behold, we come to Your throne this morning bearing about with us a body of sin and death, and consequently much of sin, and much of care, and it may be much of sorrow; but we would be unburdened at Your mercy-seat now.
As for our worries, we are ashamed that we have them, seeing that You care for us. We have trusted You now for many years, and Your faithfulness has never been under suspicion, nor Your love a matter of question. We therefore leave every concern about our families or about ourselves, about our business, or about our souls, entirely with our God.
And as for our sin, we bless you for a sight of the precious blood of Jesus: when you see it you pass over us. No angel of justice smites where once the blood is sprinkled. Oh, let us have a sight of the blood of Jesus too, and rest because You have put away our sin forever, because we believe in Jesus.
Anxiety cannot help you and there is no need for it—therefore do not store up sorrow by being anxious as to the future. Our business is with today: we are only to ask bread day by day, and that only in sufficient abundance for the day’s consumption.
To import the possible sorrows of tomorrow into the thoughts of today is an excessive amount of unbelief. When the morning brings sorrow, it will bring strength for that sorrow.
Today will require all the vigor we have to deal with its immediate evils; there can be no need to import cares from the future.
To load today with trials not yet arrived, would be to overload it. Anxiety is evil, but anxiety about things which have not yet happened is altogether without excuse.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~
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