Wow, Pastor John.
I was sitting here typing, thinking on the Lord and some things that we, as frail human beings, experience in our daily life.
I was considering how we can easily get engrossed in our work, beating and banging away all day, trying to produce as much as we can, sometimes losing sight of the fact that the Lord sustains us, not our job – the job is just the vehicle by which he delivers that blessing. Or he can just rain manna 🙂
As I was thinking on these things, and how we may give ourselves over to worry during turbulent times in our field or industry, or even the global economy, and how we may worry about whether we will have a job. Or we get concerned about the amount of work we have now, and whether it is enough to sustain us, the Lord spoke to my heart and said, “That is the equivalent of Nebuchadnezzar stepping out onto his balcony and declaring in his heart, that he was responsible for all that his eye could see.”
The Lord was telling me that to worry about your future is to boast that you are responsible for your past. To worry about what will come is to say in your heart that you are responsible for all that your eye can see – and not the Lord!
I have never seen it quite that way before! I love that thought from Jesus!
Jerry