Have you ever lost sleep or your peace of mind because you are worried about some event, or about someone, or maybe even about yourself? Of course you have. What a silly question? We all can identify with being troubled over worries of one sort or another. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t.
I read an illustration about the only two days in the week that we should not be worried about. One of these days is yesterday. With all of its mistakes and cares, aches and pains, its faults and blunders, yesterday is not worth worrying about because yesterday has come and gone and is completely out of our control. The other day is tomorrow. With all its possibilities, its adversities, its burdens, or its promises or performances, tomorrow too, is beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow’s sun is going to rise just like it did yesterday, either in sunshine or dark clouds, and still we have no stake in tomorrow because it is yet unborn. Hymm, that leaves only one day, doesn’t it? And that day is today. And by the end of this day, most of our battles and skirmishes, worries and cares, have already come and gone. Jesus said, “Sufficient unto the day, is the evil thereof.” In other words, “Each day has enough trouble of its own,” (Matthew 6:34).
During the years of 1947 to 1949, a well known pastor by the name of Peter Marshall, served as Chaplain of the United States Senate. If his name sounds familiar to you, his life story has been told in a book written by his wife, Catherine Marshall, whose autobiography was also made into a cinematic movie called, “A Man Called Peter”. He was an Irish immigrant who came to America back in the 1930’s who became a U. S. citizen, and who, like Daneil and Ezekiel, was called by the Lord into public ministry in a land other than his own birth country, to share the gospel story.
