Do not worry for tomorrow, sufficient for today is the evil thereof.

 Do Not Worry About Tomorrow

A Reflection on Matthew 6:34

Do not worry about tomorrow—let it go,

For tomorrow has its own burdens, its own ebb and flow.

Sufficient for the day is its own trouble,

Its own sorrow, its own rubble.

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34, AMP)

Today has enough—enough to fill

Your hands, your heart, your mind, your will.

The present moment holds its weight

Of grace and struggle, love and hate.

Do not borrow from the coming tide

The fears that in tomorrow hide.

When you worry about what might be,

You miss the peace He gives for free.

You trade the manna for today

For anxious thoughts that steal away

The joy that waits in this one breath,

The life that conquers fear of death.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34, NIV)

The birds don't sow, they don't reap or store,

Yet your Father feeds them evermore.

Are you not more than they? Then why

Do anxious questions fill the sky?

"What will we eat? What will we wear?"

He knows your needs, He hears your prayer.

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? (Matthew 6:26)

The lilies of the field don't toil or spin,

Yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like them.

If God so clothes the grass that's here today and gone tomorrow,

Will He not clothe you, child of faith, and calm your sorrow?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow... (Matthew 6:28)

So let tomorrow keep its own distress.

Give it to the One who loves to bless.

Today, receive the grace sufficient for the hour,

Today, receive His peace, His love, His power.

My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

Do not worry about tomorrow—

Not because there is no pain,

But because the One who holds tomorrow

Holds you now in His gentle reign.

Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

And sufficient for the day is His grace—

Enough to carry, enough to cover,

Enough to meet you face to face.

So let the future be unknown.

You are not alone.

The God who walks you through today

Will be there tomorrow, come what may.

Amen.