Daily Faith Walk

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. — Matthew 6:34 (NIV) What does the Bible say about worry over the future? Short answer. The Bible doesn't tell you the future will be fine, it tells you where to put your attention while it's still unknown. Jesus says worry about tomorrow steals today and changes nothing (Matthew 6:34). Peter says to hand your anxiety to God because He genuinely cares (1 Peter 5:7). Paul says prayer, not rumination, is what stands between an anxious mind and a guarded one (Philippians 4:6-7). None of this promises the outcome you're afraid of won't happen. It promises you a way to carry today without borrowing tomorrow's weight in advance. Jesus names the futility of worry, not the sin of feeling it Matthew 6 sits inside the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus is talking to people for whom 'what will we eat, what will we wear' wasn't abstract. Most of His l...

It's probably late when you're reading this, or early, and the same three worries have been circling for an hour. You've prayed about it already, maybe more than once, and it hasn't gone quiet. That's not a failure of your faith. Worry is stubborn, and it rarely leaves because we've been told, correctly, that we shouldn't have it. Why this is genuinely hard Worry is hard to put down because it's doing a job, even a bad one. It convinces you that thinking about the problem is the same as handling it. Your body doesn't distinguish well between a real threat and an imagined one at 2 a.m., the racing heart is the same either way. And some of what you're anxious about is genuinely uncertain. God does not promise you that the diagnosis will be benign or the job will come through. He promises His presence in it, which is a different thing, and slower to feel than we'd like. Add to this that many of us grew up believing anxious people are just weak ...