If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5
None of us can know what lies ahead for us. We would all agree it is a good thing that we don’t. Life lived, day by day, brings enough anxiety. If we had also to deal today with tomorrow’s problems, or next year’s problems, it would be crushing.
And yet, we all do that to some extent. It’s called worry. Someone has said that worry is really low-grade fear. Fear of the future. Insecurity.
God gives us grace for today—right now. He does not give us grace to face what might be tomorrow. Anything might be. Our security is in God, in His providence and provision, whether we are called upon to skip across the brook Kidron, or wade into the floodplain of the mighty Jordan river.
