Do not worry about tomorrow.
—Matthew 6:34
“Do not worry about your life” (Mt 6:25).
“Do not worry about tomorrow” (Mt 6:34).
When you read these words of Jesus, do you begin to worry about being worried?
Jesus didn’t condemn concern, he rebuked a mindset that disregards God. In Gethsemane, he was “overwhelmed with sorrow” and prayed to be delivered from the approaching agony—but yielded to the Father: “Your will be done.”
Worry that leaves God out of the picture is paid in the coin of distress.
“Be anxious for nothing,” wrote Paul, “but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God” (Phil 4:6).
It will be a big win for you if, like Jesus, you let your requests be made known to God, then whisper, “Your will be done”—and leave it there.
You can’t change yesterday, but you can poison today
by worrying about tomorrow.