A creature of a day
Therefore take no anxious thought for tomorrow. Not only, take no thought how to lay up treasures on earth, how to increase in worldly substance, take no thought how to procure more food than you can eat or more clothing than you can put on, or more money than is required from day to day for the plain, reasonable purposes of life, but take no uneasy thought even concerning those things which are absolutely needful for the body. Do not trouble yourself now with thinking what you shall do at a season which is yet far off. Perhaps that season will never come, or it will be no concern of yours. Before then you will have passed through all the waves and be landed in eternity. All those distant views do not belong to you, who are but a creature of a day. Indeed, what have you to do with tomorrow, more strictly speaking? Why should you perplex yourself without need? God provides for you today what is needful to sustain the life which he has given you. It is enough. Give yourself up into his hands. If you live another day, he will provide for that also.
1771 text
24. Therefore take no thought for the morrow. Not only, take ye no thought, how to lay up treasures on earth, how to increase in worldly substance; take no thought how to procure more food than you can eat, or more raiment than you can put on; or more money than is required from day to day, for the plain, reasonable purposes of life: but take no uneasy thought even concerning those things which are absolutely needful for the body. Do not trouble yourself now, with thinking what you shall do, at a season which is yet afar off. Perhaps that season will never come: or it will be no concern of yours: before then you will have passed through all the waves, and be landed in eternity. All those distant views do not belong to you, who are but a creature of a day. Nay, what have you to do with the morrow, more strictly speaking? Why should you perplex yourself without need? God provides for you to-day what is needful to sustain the life which he hath given you. It is enough: give yourself up into his hands: if you live another day, he will provide for that also.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.
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