One Year Ago

I woke up this morning thinking about one year ago today. Where I was. Who my close friends were. What I thought about myself. What I looked like. Where I stood spiritually. Tons of different scenarios were running through my mind.

I remember at this time last year I was getting ready for college, and not knowing what to expect from that experience. I was working at a Dairy Queen and working as much as I possibly could. As I was thinking about all of there year ago memories I pondered how much I worried about the things back then that didn't even last until now.

How true that is in our lives. We get caught up worrying about the things of today and how we have to do this or that. We worry about how we'll pay for this or how we'll make this relationship or that relationship work.

Looking back at all of those things that I once worried about I feel so foolish.

I hope you and I will do better at worrying about the things that God is concerned about, instead of worrying about our own goals and pleasures.

Matthew 6:25-34(NIV)

"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 not life 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? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.