The Now

If you’re anything like me, you’re filled with worries about the future. An endless stream of “what about?”s tugs the mind away from the present moment and the task at hand. How can we break through the constant onslaught of anxiety? There is one remedy: let God be God. He will take care of us tomorrow, so we can focus on today. C.S. Lewis puts it well by comparing life to a play:

How can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are “on” concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

It is not up to us to know what happens next. It is up to us to live each moment as best we can. And we can’t do that if our minds are splintered into a million moments at once. Combatting worrisome thoughts really doesn’t get much simpler than looking to our caring God for help:

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7