Have you ever found yourself worrying about tomorrow? I realize that’s somewhat of a silly question.  I think we’ve all had moments of  “what if _____happens?”, or “what if _____doesn’t  happen?”  Here’s a great perspective by author and pastor Kevin DeYoung on Matthew 6:25-34:

“The big idea of this passage could not be any clearer: Jesus does not want us to worry about the future.  God knows what we need to live.  When He wants us to die, we will die.  And as long as He wants us to live, we will live.  He will provide us with the food, drink, jobs, housing, with everything that we need to live and glorify Him in this life until He wants us to glorify Him by dying.  Worrying and fretting and obsessing about the future, even if it is a pseudo-holy worry that attempts to discern the will of God, will not add one single hour to your life, and it will certainly not add any happiness or holiness either.

Worry and anxiety are not merely bad habits or idiosyncrasies.  They are sinful fruits that blossom from the root of unbelief.  Jesus doesn’t treat obsession with the future as a personal quirk, but as evidence of little faith.  Worry and anxiety reflect our hearts’ distrust in the goodness and sovereignty of God.  Worry is a spiritual issue and must be fought with faith.  We must fight to believe that God has mercy for today’s troubles and, no matter what may come tomorrow, that God will have new mercies for tomorrow’s troubles.  God’s way is not to show us what tomorrow looks like or even to tell us what decisions we should make tomorrow.  That’s not His way because that’s not the way of faith.  God’s way is to tell us that He knows tomorrow.  He cares for us, and therefore, we should not worry.”

Kevin DeYoung, “Just Do Something – A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will”,   Moody Publishers, 2009

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on.  Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not of more value than they?”  Matthew 6:25-27 NKJV