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

How many of us truly take our storms, our lives, our everything one day at a time?

I know I tend to be the queen of worrying especially about what will happen tomorrow.  This is something that the Lord is truly working on in me right now.  (I know the list of what He is working on is long!) God has even brought a stranger into my life to tell me not to worry.  To show me that even though it is human nature to worry, if I continue to worry about something that I have given to God, then I am sinning.  I do not want my worry to get in the way of the work that God is doing.  Letting worry creep in means I am giving my situation over to a spirit of fear and God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind! (2 Timothy 1:7)

In my research and studying I found where a pastor prayed this every day, “Dear Heavenly Father, You are in charge of everything that will happen to me today- whether it be good or bad, positive or negative.  Please make me thankful for everything that happens to me today.  Amen”  I have started praying this myself in the morning and it really does change my attitude for the day.  I have added to it that the Lord makes me watchful and shows me His miracles daily; that He truly helps me take my life one day at a time.  Like most people, I tend to worry about tomorrow and how my circumstances will play out. When will the waiting be over? When will I have an answer from God? Will it be this year?? Next??  I find when I am in this mindset, my circumstances consume me more and more and I start to lose sight of God and what He has for me TODAY!  He truly has something for me every single day if I would just be still, listen, and be watchful!

Remember how He is teaching me patience??

I am more patient when I focus on what the Lord has for me today.  It is in my worrying about tomorrow and how this story will end that I grow impatient.  I’m not saying that I won’t stumble or that I will never worry again but I am truly trying to let the Lord guide me as He molds me every day to be more like Jesus. I am learning to trust completely in Him and to cast all my cares on Him.  I have to do it daily but that’s part of taking this journey one day at a time.

I don’t know if this blog is helping anyone but I can say that it is helping me.  God has truly taught me so much over the last 6 months and when I write about them, he teaches me even more.  Some lessons he’s been trying to teach me since day 1 and I’m just now getting them.  Did I mention I can be stubborn and hard-headed???  My God is patient with me and I thank Him each and every day for that.  The stranger I was referring to earlier has a lot to do with me learning some of these lessons.  God brought Jesse to me a few weeks ago and I cannot thank Him enough!  We are no longer strangers but true and honest friends.  He prays for me and with me.  He asks me the hard questions that I need to answer for myself. He helps me to see things through the eyes of the Lord.  Some of what he says to me my friends and prayer warriors have been telling me all along, but when the Lord brings a perfect stranger into your life saying the same things, you tend to sit up and listen.  Isn’t it amazing the lengths the Lord will go to for us???

So today I will focus on God’s presence in the present.

I do not have to worry about what my future holds because God is already there preparing the way. He walks beside me TODAY, holding my hand TODAY, and He will continue to be present in my TODAY if I just put my focus on Him and leave the uncertainty of tomorrow to the One who knows the outcome already!