Borrowing from Tomorrow

In our current financial system credit is easy.  There are so many people who want to lend you money that many of the rates are pretty low.  Some financial advisers even down play the need for a nest egg as you can borrow your way out of an emergency.  From funding our lives to funding the government, credit has become as American as baseball and apple pie.

Our society borrows a lot, but not just money.  We borrow time.  We put off till tomorrow what we won't deal with today.  For years we have been hearing about medicare going bankrupt, our crumbling roads and bridges, environmental problems.  So often the political solution is to kick the can down the road and hope that the problem isn't so bad after all.  This leads to the other commodity that we take on credit, worry.

The Bible tells us not to borrow trouble from tomorrow.  Worry about today because tomorrow will have problems of its own.  There is a difference between planning and worrying.  Planning is about making preparations, worrying on the other hand is concentrating on things that are out of your control as if by force of will you can bend reality around what you want.

Watch this video from Pastor Lloyd.

It's hard to live a life in debt to the future, whether that is financially or spiritually.  Trust in God and let the future tale care of itself.