I always love a good read or story for the knowledge it brings, the wisdom nugget it uncovers, and at times, the laughter it exudes. The joy of telling others about my hot discovery often impels me to share once I feel convinced the content will make another smile, learn something new or offer guidance.
See below ‘UCB media’ word for the day that will make you smile, laugh, and offered wisdom nugget as you carefully tread the NEW path called 2021.
Don’t obsess over the future
‘Don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time.’
Matthew 6:34 TLB
The story’s told of a clock that spent a great deal of time worrying about its future, reasoning that it had to tick twice each second. ‘How much ticking might that be?’ the clock thought. So it began to calculate that it would tick 120 times each minute, which is 7,200 times each hour. That meant in a twenty-four-hour day it would have to tick 172,800 times, and 63,072,000 times every year. By this time the clock began to get overwhelmed and sweat profusely. Finally, it calculated that in a ten-year period it would have to tick 630,720,000 times – and at that point the clock collapsed with a nervous breakdown.
Psychologists reckon that about 95 per cent of all we worry about never happens. What about the other 5 per cent? Four out of five times things turn out better than we anticipated, including a lot of outright blessings! In the end, only 1 per cent of all the bad we think might happen actually does, and of this it’s rarely as bad as we feared. That’s why Jesus said, ‘Don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time.’
The apostle Peter gives us the right perspective to live by in these words: ‘Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully’ (1 Peter 5:7 AMPC).
So the word for today is – don’t obsess over the future.
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