Promotion Principle: Take one day at a time

Pastor Charles M. Roach

When the unexpected happens and it seems you have been abandoned and forgotten, remember God’s promise to those who trust in Him, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” Tough times are all around us. As a matter of fact, we may be affected by them. The tough times could be the lost of a job, a demotion on the job, or a cut in salary. Yet, as a believer, you were not promised exclusion from trials, but assistance and resources during the trials. Therefore, a wise approach to life is to take it, live it one day at a time. Matthew 6:25-34 expresses it well:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you

will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on.

Let’s stop here. You are not to worry; that is, to stress yourself into a bundle of nervous fits. You are to be concern to the point of trusting God to be your resource.

Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. ARE YOU NOT OF MORE VALUE THAN THEY?

Do not forget that you are the crown of God’s creation. His joy and goal is to take care of you everyday. Life has progressed for me; therefore, I can say as the psalmist, “I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). God will take care of you.

So, why do you worry?

For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow…

Take one day at a time. Rejoice in it, hope in it and wait patiently in it. That which you need surely will come.