Corrie ten Boom says this about worry: “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” How true!
Money is a resource and gift given to us from God. Like water, wind or electricity, money can work in profitable ways when channeled properly. However, if not channeled properly, money can wreak havoc on our lives! God has a plan for our lives concerning money and our finances. There are over 2,000 scriptures in the Bible that have to do with how we handle our money and manage it.
Proverbs 21:5 says, “Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity.” Planning a financial vision and working with God guarantee a profitable return. In the parable found in Matthew 25, there was a master who gave three of his servants each talent to manage while he went out of town. Two of them managed the talent well and were good stewards with what was given to them.
Therefore, in the end, each were given more talents to manage. It is not the same story with the third servant. He hid the talent in the ground because he was afraid. His plan of ignoring his talent did not reap a profitable return; it reaped a harvest of no return. Inside out How many of us feel like doing that today? At the beginning of implementing a financial plan, we get afraid just like this servant and wish we could burry our own situation!
We might be afraid to look at the numbers, and actually see how far behind we are, or acknowledge the amount of debt we have. But God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, self-discipline and a sound mind. We have to face the situation in order to change the situation. Change needs to be conceived on the inside before you perceive it on the outside.
When we worry, we carry around our past and future cares on our shoulders burdening ourselves with unnecessary burdens. A story is given of a pastor who was heavily burdened with anxiety. He made the mistake of burdening himself in the present with things that belonged to the past and the future.
Let us go to our savior Jesus with our burdens through prayer. Let us place our hope and confidence in God. Never try to carry tomorrow’s burdens with today’s grace rather let us rejoice in the strength God gives us for today.
“Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall.”
Psalms 55:22
