Your Father has all your tomorrows in the palm of His hand; so, choose His presence today.

Want to know what robs today of its peace? Tomorrow.

Jesus touched on this when He said, “Don’t be anxious about tomorrow” (Matt. 6:34). This kind of anxiety will rob you of your peace today.

The word for anxious means to divide your thoughts. In other words, we become anxious when our minds go back and forth on the choice I can make right now while thinking about tomorrow’s decisions, divided thoughts.

Know this, tomorrow’s circumstances will change! The parameters of our decision will then change as well; thus, our divided thoughts today and its accompanying anxiety were for nothing!

Sure, we make plans for tomorrow or even the rest of our day. But, if we focus on the next moment’s decision rather than the current moment, our peace can go right out the window.

Jesus knew He was going to the cross; and yet, He chose to stay in the present and presence of His Father.

What if Jesus had focused, though, on the cross every day of His life prior to Gethsemane?  Do you think He could have slept on a boating sailing on a storming Galilean Sea if He had?  

While at Gethsemane, He was under so much pressure caused by divided thinking that He sweat blood and became depressed. He was told to go to the cross, yet He asked His Father, “You sure there isn’t another way?”

Can you imagine that kind of pain every day of your life rather than just for the moment it was meant to be experienced?

His peace, though, was restored the moment He focused on the one thought, “Your will be done. I will go to the cross.”

Tomorrow’s challenges are for tomorrow. Strive to stay in God’s presence today where there is peace through choosing to follow Him in the present. He’ll walk you through your tomorrow when it becomes your today.