Go And Eat Your Bread With Joy
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on….And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?...Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin…”
Sometimes it feels careless, not to worry about tomorrow. Not to worry about the future. No, things don’t look good for us, my fellow lovers of freedom and truth. Shouldn’t we prepare? Sure I’ve talked about stocking a pantry and keeping emergency supplies on hand, all tangible things that are good. But that only goes so far. If only I add a little bit of worry...a little bit of anxiety... maybe then my preparations will feel solid? Feel like enough? Feel like something to put my trust in? You may know what I mean— it’s that little lie we tell ourselves, that over-analyzing better equips us to face certain situations, when really it just leaves us empty and unable to tackle things with a sound mind.
The best thing we could do to prepare for tomorrow is to delight in the Lord today! “So teach us to number our days…” (Psalm 90:12)
Go and eat your bread with joy!
It’s an awful waste of time to worry about the future when the Lord has already set so much before us today. Let us get to work! “…and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and mind your own business and work with your hands…” (1 Thessalonians 4:11)
God has made it clear that what happens tomorrow is none of our business today. So quiet down now...it’s time to be fruitful even when the future looks like fallow ground. No, here on earth things don’t look too good. But oh how bright is the promise of eternity with Jesus Christ! Allow the increasing darkness of this world to guide our eyes to the one True Light that will never cease! “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.”
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