Daily Devotional - 1476 - Grace or Worry?

Daily Devotional – 1476 – Grace or Worry

Papa J's rules for Livin #105

When it comes to being Spiritual minded many of God’s children are like the absent minded professor.  One day the professor took a lunch break and after returning to his office, he saw a sign on the door that said. “I'll be back in thirty minutes”. So he sat down in the waiting area and waited.

Comments and Challenges

“What happens when we worry? Worry brings tomorrow's difficulties into our present day troubles. God does not allot us grace for tomorrow's difficulties. He only gives us grace for today. When we reach into tomorrow's troubles, we overload or short circuit the sufficiency of God’s grace for the current day. Worry does not take the sorrow or consequence out of tomorrow, only overrides the Mercy and Grace He provides for the current day.  Should I share with you the verse of scripture that clearly says this better than I do? Matthew 6:34

Now here is another question! Have you ever met up with tomorrow? Now don’t mess it up and say: Yes! Since tomorrow always arrives today. For sure, if you ever met up with tomorrow you would run right past it to; today. Like seeking to match two magnets by reversing the poles, the force pushing against the two is so strong they do not meet equally and this is my take on worrying about things that God has already planned for you. Romans 8:28-30.

Look with me at Psalm 40:5 – Many, O LORD my God are Your wonderful works which You have done: and Your thoughts which are toward us cannot be recounted to you in order; if I would declare to speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Another Psalm of David says this about God’s thoughts toward His saints. Psalm 139:17-18 – How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake You are still with me.

If we are out of breath because we have overloaded ourselves over worry, seek to remember that The LORD God has already considered it. Thus worry does not make us ready for the future, but in fact; is the cause for us to be unprepared for what God is doing moment by moment in our life. Look at yesterday as a canceled check and tomorrow as a promissory note. And expend todays grace wisely. There is sufficient time for today’s grace so use it, in fact the thought just hit me that grace is like manna.

Yesterday’s grace is expended, if we seek to gather more grace than is sufficient, it may just melt in our hands. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. Yet should you need more grace for the day do not strive or be full of pride, rest in the LORD because to the humble he gives more grace – James 4:1-10.