God will give us what we need for today alone. "Take as much as you want, but don't keep even a crumb for tomorrow." In various forms, this will become God's plan for human life. You will encounter it again when Jesus trains his disciples and sends them out on a missionary journey with no extra supplies (Mark 6:7-9). The plan, of course, is genius. Dump a year's suppleof manna into cold storage and, guaranteed, you will forget God until the supple disappears. (Deuteronomy 8:10-14). Such prosperity would be a curse. God's strategy is to give us enough for today and then, when tomorrow comes, to give us enough for that day too.
Do you see how this exactly what we need? Fears and worries live in the future, trying assure a good outcome in a potentially hard situation. The last thing they want to do is trust anyone, God included. To thwart this tendency toward independence, God only gives us what we need when we need it. The emerging idea is that he wants us to trust him in the future rather than our self-protective plans.
Edward T. Welch
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Wow! I don't know about you but that was a huge reminder to me! It got my attention. I know that I can be a worry wart at times and it does no good when you don't know what lays ahead. But the assurance and comfort of knowing that God is there giving me what I need to get through this moment and the next is wonderful. Yes, there are times I want to know how this or that will turn out and I get impatient but God always has a way of bringing me back and slowing me down to what he wants me to do and not what I may want to do. There are so many days that I don't know how I could get through them without what the Lord gives me to do so.....So very thankful :)
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