Do Not Worry About Tomorrow For Tomorrow Will Worry About Itself ( Matt:6 )

[DustyRhodes]

Each Day Has Troubles Of Its Own,

Jesus reminds us to be at peace within ourselves so we
may life a life in loving God and our neighbors so that
we can live without urgency and torment all the time that
we create for ourselves. Of course we are human and
we are bound by the human condition which is less than
perfect. Yet while we are not perfect, we need to strive
for perfection. Christ on the cross has shown us the way
to be at liberty and to be joyful. So of course it is never
easy for us to always be in harmony and every day to be
as perfect as we would like it to be. The world is often
filled with difficulties not of our making that makes it hard
many times. But Jesus is saying, don't create burdens of
your own. Scripture also says "Be happy, always happy
in the Lord." We need to keep trying.

 

[Melach]

Lord help me not to worry.

 

[Marcelo]

Lord help me not to worry.

Lord, help us all not to worry!

The best I can do is to keep myself from being a toxic worrier, but Jesus was not talking about chronic worry; He was telling us not to worry at all.

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.

Constant worry reveals a lack of trust in God, but having food in store for tomorrow is not a sin. Jesus, however, told the Jews in the Sermon on the Mount not to worry at all.

Why did the Lord urge the multitude to be totally worry-free? In my opinion Jesus was upgrading the Law of Moses to an ultimate level.

Did Paul ever say we have to be totally worry-free? I don't think so! The words of the earthly Jesus are eternal, but for salvation purposes, what applies to us today are the words of Paul (= the words of the risen Christ).

Take note that WORRIERS are not included in I COR 6:9

9 Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

 

[ForestGreenCook]

Each Day Has Troubles Of Its Own,

Jesus reminds us to be at peace within ourselves so we
may life a life in loving God and our neighbors so that
we can live without urgency and torment all the time that
we create for ourselves. Of course we are human and
we are bound by the human condition which is less than
perfect. Yet while we are not perfect, we need to strive
for perfection. Christ on the cross has shown us the way
to be at liberty and to be joyful. So of course it is never
easy for us to always be in harmony and every day to be
as perfect as we would like it to be. The world is often
filled with difficulties not of our making that makes it hard
many times. But Jesus is saying, don't create burdens of
your own. Scripture also says "Be happy, always happy
in the Lord." We need to keep trying.

There is a lot of truth, that I can see, in what you have said. The scriptures are not written to those who are not God's children, but to his children, for the purpose of instructing them how to live their lives while they sojourn here in this world. God has given man freedom to choose as to how he wants to live his life here on earth, but his eternal inheritance is by God's choice (grace) and not man's. If we follow his commandments (instructions) we can live our lives here on earth with peace, joy, contentment and without fear, even with the world being so corrupt round about us. Many of God's children are looking at the scriptures with the wrong perspective, in that, they mistakenly think that the scriptures tell them how to get saved eternally, when in fact, they tell them the good news of how they have already been eternally saved by Jesus's death on the cross. Deu 30:19, God is telling his children to choose life (not eternal life, but this good and peaceful life as they sojourn here on earth by following his instructions. Proverbs 3:1,2 - My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments; for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.