I was talking with a neighbor the other day. We were sharing about similar experiences in dealing with elderly parents. He was commenting on how easy it is to worry about what is coming around the corner.
Off of the top of my head, I told him that we don't need to borrow from tomorrow.
We can waste so much time and energy on concerning ourselves with situations that we create for ourselves in our minds. So many times those two little words 'what if' can creep into my subconscious, and consume my thought pattern. It can become like a worthless mantra....'what if this happens...' or 'what if that happens..' It becomes like a spinning hamster wheel in our heads.
What do we do when the wheel is spinning out of control? We need to do what Carrie Underwood says and declare, "Jesus, take the wheel.". Take it from my head....stop the relentless worry and torture that we impose upon ourselves.
It is human nature to worry. Jesus taught about this tendency. He thought it was important enough to speak about it in His Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 6:34, Jesus told the people, “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
We are given 24 hours in a day. Not 48. We don't need to try and cram tomorrow's concerns into today's timeframe. This doesn't mean we shouldn't wisely plan for the future...but we shouldn't fret and worry about what may or may not happen. It shouldn't consume and eat up the 24 hours that we do have. It isn't in our hands, anyway. Worry only cripples us. It strips us of the ability to move ahead...to do what is needed to be done.
So borrow many things...a friend's shirt...a cup of sugar...a DVD...but don't borrow anything you can't repay. Once your time is spent...it's gone. You can't get it back.
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