Do Not Fear Tomorrow...

...for God is already there.

I saw this very biblical quote on a friend's refrigerator yesterday.  It set my thoughts on the sovereignty of God.  Then this morning, as I was reading my Bible, I came across these words in Genesis that the Lord spoke to Abram, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great."  Later on in the same conversation, the Lord  tells Abram he will be buried at "a good old age."

We are prone to fear, aren't we?  We get our minds on our circumstances and forget that God is big, sovereign, in control of absolutely everything, working out His plan.  We forget that He has written a story, from beginning to end, and He is there throughout, working to bring this story to His end.  For every one of us, He has our days numbered.  He had Abraham's days numbered.  He planned the day we would be born.  He knows what will happen to us all the days in between, up until the day we die.  He knows how we will die, or if we will be alive at His return.  He hasn't stopped being good when bad things happen to us, and they will.  He is so big and awesome He uses the evil in this world for good purposes.  He is in absolute command of it.  We shouldn't fear whether or not we will have something to eat tomorrow.  We shouldn't fear what the economy might do, or that we could lose our jobs, our homes, our loved ones, or even our very own lives.  If He wants us to have a full stomach and be warmly clothed, we will have a full stomach and be warmly clothed.  If it is His plan for us to go hungry and cold, He will provide the ability even then to be content, and joyful, in Him.  He has told us that before He returns, some of us will be delivered over to tribulation, and will be killed.  We will be hated because we identify ourselves with Christ.  Darkness hates light and when unrestrained, will do everything to extinguish it.  We shouldn't fear what people can do to us.  God will be there with us. 

Abraham didn't have the written Word.  He had the blessing of the very God of the universe speaking directly to him.  "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great."  You are going to live to be a really old man.  And he did.  What God says will happen will come to pass.  We have the blessing of the full revelation of His Word.  The full testimony of Himself.  The full record of His faithfulness from generation to generation.  Ignorance breeds fear, but with knowledge comes peace.  We are commanded to be bankrupt when it comes to worry and anxiety.  There is no reason to fear our circumstances or to fear what tomorrow may bring.  We have the end of the story.  We triumph.  We are overcomers and we overcome, through Him, because He has written it into the story.  When you find yourself heading down the path of fear and worry, set your thoughts on Him.  Begin a prayer of thanksgiving for His sovereignty over all things.  Get into His Word, and be reminded of just how big of a God He really is.

Do not fear tomorrow, for God is already there.