"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day..."
(Matt. 6:34)
“And his allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life,” (2 Kgs. 25:30). Charles Spurgeon says in his devotional book Morning and Evening, “A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow’s supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn. The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet.”
The trademark of the Christian life lies not in its tomorrows, but in its todays. “Give us day by day our daily bread,” is how our Divine Teacher instructs us. You need not fear at the close of today you have scraped the bottom of the barrel dry; it has a strange way of replenishing itself (1Kgs.17:16). Whether it is grub or grace, there will be a sufficiency of both on a daily basis. “Yesterday He helped me, today He did the same, how long will this continue? Forever, praise His name.”
"It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis".
(rds)
By An Old Disciple
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