by Jimmy G

Created on: September 05, 2009

'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 life not more important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life.

Matthew 6:25-27

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34

They say that people who worry lack faith in God. But I say that people who worry lack the understanding of the limits of their abilities. Worrying begins with the words "What if...?" What if he doesn't like me? What if my plan doesn't work out? What if my business venture turns out to be a scam? There are other instances of what ifs", but those who worry all want to control what cannot be controlled. They want to control the future. They want to control other people's behavior towards them. They want the little effort that they exerted to reap bigger fruits. They secretly believe that if they have a good hand on these things, they are in the driver's seat. But, even if one's in the driver's seat, there is not much you can do if the other driver rams into your car. What the driver can do is to ensure himself that he follows the rules and be aware of the surroundings. The rest is simply beyond our control.

This analogy of being in the driver's seat should be helpful for us to acknowledge the limits of our abilities. The only thing we can do is to do our very best today, to be honest that we have done our best today; and to be open and receptive to learning so we recognize our newly found abilities. With newly discovered knowledge of ourselves, we get closer to grasping the true limits of our abilities. An understanding of the true limits of our abilities allows us to accept things we simply cannot do.

With faith in God, we can truly say in our body and in our soul, "for tomorrow will care of itself" and, may I add, I will have no fear of new things, new endeavors, new potential troubles, for my faith in God has assured and consoled me that I will have done my best, and my best is good enough for me because it is good enough for God.

It was said that faith can move mountains. Obviously, faith cannot literally move mountains. But, the mountains of troubles and unforeseeable events cannot move a person of faith. For a person of faith is rooted in his genuine understanding of his self and of God for whom his best is good enough.

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