By Banji Ayoola
Our worries about the future are misplaced. Because the future will take care of itself if we move aright within the wonderful Laws governing the entire Creation.
The Laws through Which we, as well as everything, came into existence. Through Which we reap whatever we sow, in multiples and unfailing.
In confidence therefore, we should attend to our duties with full vigour and in joyful gratitude. Give ourselves fully and completely unto the Lord.
And cast aside the tormenting worries about tomorrow, which has not come. Instead think always of doing good now to our neighbours, present or absent, far and near, and across frontiers. And confidently leave all else to the Wisdom of the Lord, as expressed in and by the Natural Laws.
The Lord provides even for His enemies. How much more you, who, honestly, are struggling to understand better, and follow the path laid out by Him, to abide by His Laws, and thus honour His Holy Will.
Comfortingly but actively, we should recall the Words of Jesus in His Sermon on the Mountain, as recorded in Matthew 6: 25-34, where the Lord reportedly admonishes that His Father provides for the birds in the air that neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barn; that Solomon with his stupendous wealth was not as beautifully arrayed as the lilies in the field.
“Therefore take no thought, saying what shall we eat? Or wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For all these things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
– Matthew 6: 25-34
