As Time Goes By
A friend forwarded me the following which I feel is good food for thought for the new year.
The Reality Clock - will really make you think long and hard...
As Time Goes By
Click On The Clock
Labels: Quotes, relationship
posted at 1/02/2007 06:20:00 PM |
Name: Bee
3 Comments:
It is true that we have to focus on what is important, however, that is not always easy. We have to focus on the future, for days when we will not be able to care or work for ourselves, we need to feed and care for our children, etc.
So, while living for today, living life to its fullest is good advice, it must be tempered with the practical necessities of also preparing for the future.
Sometimes it seems I spend too much time preparin for the future and trying to make ends meet that I miss the current day I am given.
Let's remember Matthew 6:25-34:
Do Not Worry
25"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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If 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, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
That very passage occurred to me as I was writing my comment. It is tempered by Jesus' rebuke of Satan in the desert "Do not put your Lord God to the test." (Matt 4:7).
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