In addressing the burden of worry, Jesus Christ offers profound guidance on focusing our concerns. He advises us not to worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. This counsel urges us to stay in the present, to work on what is immediately before us, and not to fear the uncertainties of the future which we cannot control. Instead, we are to leave those uncertainties in God's hands, trusting that He will provide what we need as we focus on the challenges of today.

We should consider the future. It is very unwise to ignore it or not consider it at all, but what Scripture warns us about is being worried about tomorrow. Planning for tomorrow is time well spent. Worrying about tomorrow is time wasted. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference. Careful planning means thinking ahead about goals and steps and schedules and trusting in God's guidance. When well done, planning can ease worry. By contrast, the worrier is consumed by fear and struggles to trust God. The worrier lets his plans interfere with his relationship with God. Do not let worries about tomorrow affect your relationship with God today. This means do not be guilty of anxious care about tomorrow. It does not mean you have no thought at all about it, otherwise the farmer would not plow and till and sow. He does think about and plan for tomorrow. Proverbs 21:5 says the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty. Normally the farmer is looking to the future, but he does not spend all his time wondering and worrying about the end results of his work. He knows if he plants correctly and gets enough water, things will grow. Instead, he reasonably considers the results and then lets them go. The whole question is where to draw the line between fruitful planning and fruitless worrying. Thinking is the right thing to do up to a point, but if you go beyond that point, it becomes worry and anxiety and it paralyzes and cripples. Although it is wise to plan, it is foolish to be completely controlled by planning. The difficulty with people who are prey to these fears is that they are wringing their hands, doing nothing, and are depressed by them. It just shuts them down. It makes them ineffective. In fact, they are completely governed and mastered by the unknown, and that is always wrong. Thinking about it is right, but being controlled by the unknown is all wrong. There is the old adage, do not cross your bridges until you get to them. Many scriptural statements about this have become proverbial. For example, do not worry about tomorrow, and sufficient for the day is its own trouble. It is equally wrong to worry about the future, which is now obscure and hard to understand. So we must live in the present to the fullest and not let our worry of the future determine our present.