WORRY UNDERMINES GRACE

BY STEVE DUNN

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,  through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God." - Romans 5.1-2

It is the time of the year when people focus on the future.  The focus might be fleeting as the struggles of every day living draw us into a very destructive kind of focusing - fear over the future with all of its uncertainties.  And because there is so much we cannot control, we begin to worry.

We worry over what might go wrong in our lives and in our world.  That worry draws our attention to the mountains that we need to move or it makes molehills grow into insurmountable mountains.  It makes us believe the lie that we must be in control--although such control is futile.

It takes our eyes off a vital reality.  We are products of God's grace.  It is by His power that we live.

The future, which includes ours, belongs to God.  He knows the way from the present to the future and He will shepherd us safely through today into tomorrow.  And tomorrow holds His glory in which we will share.

 Never second-guess the Shepherd.