Reading Matt. 6:25-31

So do not worry about tomorrow;
      For tomorrow will care for itself.
            Each day has enough trouble of its own.
v. 31 NASB

Give no thought for the morrow. 
    The morrow will take care of itself.
        Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
v. 31 KJV

Lust for future knowledge was Eve's death.
Obsession with the future is still the death of Now,
therefore the death of you.
Your only existence is Now.

God is now. He overrides history and rules the universe.
He IS eternity and He IS time.

Knowledge is His domain and knowing the future is His secret.
He tells what He will - but never all of it.

Fixation on tomorrow is the loss of today.
Now is enough. Now is all there is.

Tomorrow is forbidden.
The End is revealed but
the way into it is obscured.

The End is reached by the Way of the Manna,
God's voice
one small day,
one increment of time upon the next,
lived in the now-moment and
the slow unfolding
by heaven's gift to each day.
This one day.

We want tomorrow. We want to control it by the knowing of it.
But presumption of the morrow is an illusion only.
And actually takes us to evil.

We are not safe from God.
God owns the future and He gives no guarantee of it.
He yields few of its secrets and none of its surprises.

We are only safe with God.
We are with God only this moment. He is here.
In the moment. God is present for us, only Now.

God is time. God is history. God is not a storyteller.
He is the Author of the story, every story.
And every story is a tapestry
of weaving one event, one day
upon another into the unfolding Purpose
of God in Christ.

The Future?
Every story will serve Christ, reveal Christ and...
glorify the Father. 

James gave a stern warning against living by
presumption of the future.

"Come now, you who say,
"Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city,
and spend a year there and engage in business
and make a profit."

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
You are just a vapor that appears for a little while
And then vanishes away.

Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills,
We will live and also do this or that."
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance;
all such boasting is evil."
James 5:13-16 NASB

'Arrogance' because you do not know the future
and to presume you do, is the Tree of Death.
'Evil' because to claim knowledge of tomorrow
is to say, "I am god."

The future belongs to the Almighty. Entirely.
Now is mine when I am with Him
just now...here and now.

Fear of the future is the loss of its preparation
which is today!
God knows and God prepares you for His tomorrow
by the small increment of this one day.
Tomorrow is hidden in today but only
tomorrow will we see its secret.

Copyright © 2006 Martha Kilpatrick