Did not the Savior say, "Take no thought for the morrow," and "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"? Then why so thoughtful about the future? Why such anxiety night and day about that matter which so presses upon you at this time? You say, I cannot help feeling it. True. God intends that you should feel it. He knows it is a care to you. He sees your poor heart burdened, and He it is who bids you to cast the whole burden upon Himself. "Casting all your care upon Thin, for He careth for you." Think then of those precious words, "for He careth for you." Do you doubt His care for you? Can you question it when you look at Jesus crucified, and think of the love that could move God to give His own Son thus to suffer for you? Surely it is when we are contemplating Jesus delivered to such a death for our offenses and raised again for our justification, that our hearts cannot but exclaim, whatever be the circumstances we are in,
“The object of that love I am,
And carried like a child.”
And after all, can you by anxiety make your circumstances better? Do you not rather by fretting and sadness grieve the heart of your loving Father, and give Satan an opportunity of filling your mind with darkness and despondency? Does not your constant anxiety night and day render your mind and body unfit for the Lord's service? You say, I ought to be exercised before the Lord about it, because He says, “No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby." Quite true, but does not the same Scripture bid you not to faint when thou art chastened of Him? Then why so anxious? Nay, is not one reason you are so anxious that you have got away from the Lord as the object of your heart, and from the circle of His thoughts to the narrowness and wretchedness of your own thoughts? Roll then this heavy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you. Leave it with Him. Meddle not with it. Let it be enough for your heart that He careth for you. Often and often you have proved that He has been better than all your fears, and it may be that He will be in this also. Listen then to divine counsel, "Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." How tender and gracious this counsel is, and how it seems to anticipate that we should be so foolish as to damage our Souls, and dishonor the Lord by carrying our own cares, and worrying ourselves about the future. How much better to leave the matter entirely in His hands, who invites, us to do so, and lean upon Him who says, "He careth for you," and that "All things work together for good to them that, love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose.”
“I have nothing to do with tomorrow,
My Savior will make that His care;
Should He fill it with trouble and sorrow,
He'll help me to suffer and bear.
“I have nothing to do with tomorrow,
Its burdens then why should I share?
Its grace, and its strength I can't borrow,
Then why should I borrow its care?”