But what every South Alabamian knows is that the end is near...triple digit humidity (and yes the humidity can be 100% and it still not rain), temps in the 90s 20 hours of the day, and the words "why do I bother doing my makeup and hair" hanging in the air.
The weather in this neck of the woods is pretty predictable, a few weeks of winter, a few weeks of spring, 8 months of summer, football season, and then we start all over again. In each of these seasons (the only exception being football season) we find ourselves longing for what comes next. During our brief winter, everyone wonders when it is going to warm up. In the midst of our long, hot summers, all we want is cooler weather....never seeming to enjoy what is right before us.
I feel like my Christian life is like that most of the time, always wondering what God has for me in the future, instead of learning and growing in the circumstances where He has placed me today. I am missing what is going on in my life today, because I am wondering what is coming down the road; will it be better, worse, more exciting, less stressful; forgetting that I am a child of the Creator of the universe, created in His image. A God who knew me and chose me before the beginning of time. A God who has a perfect plan for my life, a plan that is better than anything I can dream of or come up with on my own.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:25-34 ESV)
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:25-34 ESV)
