So Jesus...what's next???

Bailey wrote at the end of the chapter on daily bread that the Lord’s prayer could be reiterated as:

“Deliver us, O Lord, from the fear of not having enough to eat. Give us bread for today and with it give us confidence that tomorrow we will have enough”

Kyle hit on this point a bit. When I am not in touch with the will of God, I begin to pray for my daily cake. My thoughts become centered around the next thing that will satisfy me. What if God doesn't really know my desires...? Ouch. Questions like that only surface when my desires are a bit out of whack...i.e. comfort and stability over obedience.

I see this in my life as I start thinking about what is coming next. My anxieties are that God won’t provide work for me. Or that the work I get will be bland and pointless. I don’t know what’s coming next year and that doesn’t need to be an anxiety. Jesus gives us confidence that we don’t need to worry about tomorrow, this summer (as Steve was saying) or this next year.

This is when the Indian Jones theme song starts playing in my head. The future is a mystery and a great, great adventure, whatever it may hold. 

Lord, you provide my daily bread…teach me continually to trust you, and let the adventure continue!