Maybe tomorrow!
V23 n43
Matt
Often
times in life, one will make promises or such that one says they will keep or
do when tomorrow comes, or maybe next week, or next year. Especially at this
time of year, people will make promises or resolutions that they will keep or
make good on, when the new year gets here. Have we forgotten what now faith is?
Often
times one tries to deal with things in their own strength, as well as by that
which they think will work the best. One then tends to lean to their own
understanding, rather then taking the time, as well as making the effort to
seek out Father’s wisdom concerning the situation, and how He sees best how we
should approach it, and then handle it.
Let
us look at Adam Clarke’s comments on the above verse.
[Take
therefore no thought] That is, Be not therefore anxiously careful.
The eighth and last reason, against this preposterous conduct,
is-- that carking (distressing) care is not only useless
in itself, but renders us miserable beforehand. The future falls under the
cognizance of God alone: we encroach, therefore, upon his rights, when we would
fain foresee all that may happen to us, and secure ourselves from it by our
cares. How much good is omitted, how many evils caused, how many duties
neglected, how many innocent persons deserted, how many good works destroyed,
how many truths suppressed, and how many acts of injustice authorized by, those
timorous (fearful or timid) forecasts of what may
happen; and those faithless apprehensions concerning the future! Let us do now
what God requires of us, and trust the consequences to him. The future time
which God would have us foresee and provide for is that of judgment and
eternity: and it is about this alone that we are careless!
Each
day has its peculiar trials: we should meet them with confidence in God. As we
should live but a day at a time, so we should take care to suffer no more evils
in one day than are necessarily attached to it. He who neglects the present for
the future is acting opposite to the order of God, his own interest, and to
every dictate of sound wisdom. Let us live for eternity, and we shall secure
all that is valuable in time. (from Adam Clarke Commentary)
Let
us look at Matthew Henry’s comments on Matthew 6:34.
v.
34. We must not perplex ourselves inordinately about future events, because
every day brings along with it its own burthen of cares and grievances, as, if we
look about us, and suffer not our fears to betray the succors (help or
aid) which grace and reason offer, it brings along with it its own
strength and supply too. So that we are here told,
(1.) That thoughtfulness for the morrow is needless; Let
the morrow take thought for the things of itself. If wants and troubles be
renewed with the day, there are aids and provisions renewed likewise;
compassions, that are new every morning, <Lam.
(2.) that thoughtfulness for the morrow is one of those
foolish and hurtful lusts, which those that will be rich fall into, and one of
the many sorrows, wherewith they pierce themselves through. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof. This present day has trouble enough attending it, we
need not accumulate burdens by anticipating our trouble, nor borrow
perplexities from to-morrow's evils to add to those of this day. It is
uncertain what to-morrow's evils may be, but whatever they be, it is time
enough to take thought about them when they come. What a folly it is to take
that trouble upon ourselves this day by care and fear, which belongs to another
day, and will be never the lighter when it comes? Let us not pull that upon
ourselves all together at once, which
The Bible tells us that we are to seek from God our daily bread; it is this bread which will sustain us through this day. That daily bread which Father sees that we have need of, before we ask of Him. It is today that we need to hear His voice, and then obey that which we hear. It is when we neglect or ignore that which we hear from God, that causes ones heart to become hardened against the things of God.
Heb 3:7-10, Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. (KJV)
Let us look at a few of Adam Clarke’s comments on the verses from Hebrews.
As these words were originally a warning to the Israelites not to provoke God, lest they should be excluded from that rest which he had promised them, the apostle uses them here to persuade the Christians in Palestine to hold fast their religious privileges, and the grace they had received, lest they should come short of that state of future glory which Christ had prepared for them. The words strongly imply, as indeed does the whole letter, the possibility of falling from the grace of God, and perishing everlastingly; and without this supposition these words, and all such like, which make more than two-thirds of the whole of divine revelation, would have neither sense nor meaning. Why should God entreat man to receive his mercy, if he have rendered this impossible? Why should he exhort a believer to persevere, if it be impossible for him to fall away? What contemptible quibbling have men used to maintain a false and dangerous tenet against the whole tenor of the word of God! Angels fell-- Adam fell-- Solomon fell-- and multitudes of believers have fallen, and, for all we know, never rose again; and yet we are told that we cannot finally lose the benefits of our conversion! Satan preached this doctrine to our first parents; they believed him, sinned, and fell; and brought a whole world to ruin! (from Adam Clarke Commentary)
[Harden not your hearts] Which ye will infallibly do, if ye will not hear his voice.
(from Adam Clarke Commentary)
[They do alway err in their heart] Their affections are set on earthly things, and they do not acknowledge my ways to be right-- holy, just, and good. They are radically evil: and they are evil continually. They have every proof of my power and goodness, and lay nothing to heart. They might have been saved, but they would not. God was grieved on this account. (from Adam Clarke Commentary)
Today, not tomorrow now faith is. Today, not tomorrow is the accepted time for you to operate in the wisdom and power of God, Christ in you the hope of glory. What are your plans for today?
That you may know Him,
In the service of Jesus Christ
Larry Gazelka
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