GRACE FOR OUR NOW

Philippians 4:6-7 NLT Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

Are you someone who wakes up too early and starts to think about everything that’s coming up, or the hundred and one things you need to be doing, and find yourself unable to go back to sleep? Or can you sleep through anything? God knows what we’re like and Jesus made a point of saying to the crowd, don’t worry about tomorrow, today has enough worries of its own.

Jesus reminded us in the Lord’s Prayer to say, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Not our monthly or weekly bread. God gives us what we need for the day we are in right now, not for next week or some other time.😊

God has promised us His grace, His provision for whatever we need for today, fresh mercy each morning for today’s situations. But do we find we’re living in the future, what might happen, instead of in the present? Maybe we worry about what we said or did yesterday, or try to work out what we’ll do if such and such happens, and lose sleep over it, when all Jesus asks of us is to live in the grace He gives us for right now. We can’t use today’s grace for next week’s problems, and we can’t change what’s already gone. It won’t work!

So the Holy Spirit reminds us to cast all our cares onto God, to be anxious about nothing but to ask Him for what we need with a thankful heart. He says if we’ll do that we’ll know His great peace in every situation because we’ll be trusting in the God who is faithful, who will never leave us without support, the only One who has all the answers!

Today would be a good day to start leaving our tomorrows in God’s hands and believe Him to go ahead of us in every way we need Him to, and just enjoy the present and be thankful for it.😊 Amen.