Don’t bet on the future, live in the present and nowhere else. When we begin to live in the future and plan ahead, and our future does not go as “planned”, we get disappointed about what the current time holds for us. Appreciate and cherish the relationships that you have with people now because honestly we don’t what their future holds for them either. Even scripture says not to worry about tomorrow for tomorrow has enough to worry about on its own. Now am I saying to live with no plan? No, but what I am saying is that we must live in the time we have now and not hold any expectations for tomorrow or the next day. We must trust the Lord, we must trust that Jesus knows what is best for us and his plans for our future are bigger and better than ours. When we don’t trust that Jesus knows what is best, we are limiting ourselves to our plan and our lives are not as full as they could potentially be.
I believe that living this way allows us to begin to trust Jesus more and put our hope in ourselves less. Will life be scarier this way? Maybe… will life be more unpredictable? Quite possibly… will trusting the Lord bring you closer to him? Absolutely… will putting your faith in Jesus rather than yourself help you to see Jesus in a different light? 100% yes.
When we begin to look to Jesus and trust him with our everyday life and our everyday plans, he will not continue to be the God that we only turn to when we need a good grade on a test or when something discomforting is going on in our lives. He will be more real in our lives than ever before and life will be the adventure that it was meant to be.
If Jesus is who he says he is, and I believe that he is, wouldn’t it make sense that the God of the universe would have a better plan for you than your plan for you?
Mathew 6: 25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
