The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.– Abraham Lincoln
One day at a time. That’s the way VCHS is rolling. Although I’m healthy and well but in COVID home quarantine, I am still regularly checking in at school. What I love to hear is that our teachers are celebrating each daily victory of in-person school, taking life one day at a time, not worrying about tomorrow.
Almost 2000 years ago, Jesus’ message and advice in the Sermon on the Mount
couldn’t be more relevant to our situation today and living life “one day at a time.” Take a moment and hear His voice.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
And I like this other translation of the final verse.
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
So how should Christians do life, especially during this tough time, one day at a time? By “seeking first” and “giving attention to” a God who loves us more than we can imagine.
Steve O'Neil
