Moment by Moment

Learning to live a day by day, moment by moment life, will give us smaller increments to deal with at a time. What wonderful wisdom we see in our Heavenly Father's creation in this matter. He created seasons, night and day, 24 hours, 60 minutes... He divided them, He saw that this was good. He knew in advance, unlike Him, our abilities to handle life would need divisions of time.


It's when we take our concern outside of these boundaries that grace lifts. Grace comes when we trust HIM with the present, not look to the future. Anxious means to be divided of mind, and thinking outside of our limits will multiply our troubles.

WHAT Thou shalt to-day provide,

Let me as a child receive;

What to-morrow may betide,

Calmly to Thy wisdom leave.

Tis' enough that Thou wilt care;

Why should I the burden bear?

 ~John Newton

Never put down trust,

because that is something 

God wants you to carry;

Never pick up cares,

because that is something 

God wants you to cast away.

~Roy Lessin Devotional

“Have we found that anxiety about possible consequences increased the clearness of our judgment, made us wiser and braver in meeting the present, and arming ourselves for the future? If we had prayed for this day's bread, and left the next to itself- if we had not huddled our days together, not allotting to each its appointed task, but ever deferring that to the future, and drawing upon the future for its own troubles, which must be met when they come whether we have anticipated them or not – we should have found a simplicity and honesty in our lives, a capacity for work, an enjoyment in it to which we are now, for the most part, strangers.” ~ F.D. Maurice