Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome. – Unknown
When Jesus instructed us not to worry about tomorrow, he was saying that we should deal with life one day at a time. He gives us the strength we need as we need it. When we take that strength he gives us and apply it to worry instead of action, we rob ourselves of the blessing God has intended for us today – not tomorrow or the next, but today. We miss out on the good things because we worry about bad things that may not even come to be!
For several years a woman had trouble getting to sleep at night because she had feared burglars. One night her husband heard a noise in the house, so he went downstairs to investigate. When he got there, he did find a burglar. “Good evening,” said the man of the house. “I am pleased to see you. Come upstairs and meet my wife. She has been waiting ten years to meet you.”
Worry is like a rocking chair, it only rocks backward and forward and gets you nowhere. Don’t waste precious time on worry. Worry brings fear, which is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.
Jeremiah 17:7–8
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and you will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.
