One day my son became frustrated over a toy that he couldn't get to function properly. In his world, it was a big problem that was growing more unsolvable as time passed. But when he brought it to me, it was nothing more than incidental. I had the understanding and ability to quickly fix it.
It reminded me of how we view our troubles as things that cause us grief that builds in us each day. However, God does not see the things that bother us as problems at all! From His perspective, it's no big deal. So what's the problem? To Him, there is none!
Corrie Ten Boom provides this encouragement: Once I had a burden that weighed heavily on me. I set it down and looked at it. Then I saw that everything about my burden was borrowed. One part belonged to the following day, one part to the next week. My burden was a big, stupid mistake.I realized that worrying is carrying tomorrow's burden with today's strength. It's carrying two days at once. It's prematurely thinking of tomorrow. On the calendar, there is only one day for action, and that is today. The sun will shine tomorrow on the problems that tomorrow brings. Why don't we look for something easier than anxiety? Worried people are like tightrope walkers trying to walk over a rope from the past to the future, balancing between hope and fear. In one hand they hold a bag with the disordered past, in the other a bag, the feared future. Worrying does not take away tomorrow's grief, it takes away today's strength. It does not enable us to avoid evil, but it makes us incapable of dealing with it when it comes.
Deuteronomy 33:25 says "...your strength will equal your days."
