"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
In the second part of this versewe're told that each day has its own troouble and that that troublee is sufficient.
Car breakdowns, illness, traffic, bad news, sudden expenses even missed oppotunities are all the types of trouble we experience and we tend to just take them in stride. But should we?
Is there anything in our lives that is too trivial for God? Is there anything about our lives that the God who numbers my hairs and my days can be disconnected from? No, I have to believe that nothing - NO thing - in and about my life is too trivial for God to be concerned with.
Traffic is bad, other drivers are rude and I am running late for an important meeting. That has a great effect on my attitiude and temper. Is God not interested in that as much as anything else? Is He not concerned that I arrive at the meeting calm and composed so I may do my best and honor Him? Does He not care about my heart and needs? To assume - even by lack of attention- that God is not interested in the smallest thing in my life makes a mockery of Jesus' claim that He is interested.
How much attention though do we pay to the trivial? Do we pray about these things? A timely arrival at a meeting, a good parking place, no car breakdown, Or deo we just figure their random things that we just have to suffer and deal with?
Brothers and sisters, our very lives are composed of a multitude of the trivial that all fit together to build our lives. One thing goes wrong and we feel our dau is spoiled. A bad hair day and we're cast down all day. One "little" thing does not go according to our plans and we're mortified and depressed. It should not be this way.
The only things I know that will assist us in livng in the "trouble" we encounter each day is attention to detail in prayer. We do not waaste God's time or providence by praying for what we consider trivial or silly. Indeed when we do pray for these things we are confirming in our hearts and minds that our God is the God of the details no matter how trivial they seem to us. We do not "bother" god when we go to Him with anything. Indeed we are dmonished to do exactly that.
Need to meed a quota? Need Power Point to work right? Need for traffic to no be a problem? Why not pray about that? What excuse could we possibly have for not praying about things of this nature.
Each day has trouble. /each day needs to begin with pray and especially prayer about facing the trouble the day will bring. And as we encounter these troubles we need to be praying about them asking God to help us see His use for them, His purpose in allowing them into our lives - when they happen!
Paul tells us to "pray always," and this admonition in Matthew is one very important reason why. We can never pray too much and we can never thing anything in our lives is too trivial to pray about.
Trusting God? Trusting God for the trivial? Who else are you going to trust?
Trusting God is not about trusting Him for BIG things it is trusting Him for EVERYTHING.
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