Do not worry about tomorrow.
—Matthew 6:34
Dale Carnegie advised living in day-tight compartments, refusing to let what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow trash your enjoyment and productivity today.
At the end of his message about anxiety (Mt 6:25–33), Jesus said, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Worry has an active imagination; it envisions all sorts of bad things on the horizon. It’s a vicious visitor that throws cloud cover over your future. Worrying about the future will not empty your tomorrow of its troubles but will empty your today of its joys.
Leon Morris cleverly observed that if you defer worry until tomorrow, you have eliminated worry, for tomorrow never comes; when it gets here, it has become today.
If worry won’t change it, you’re
wasting limited time and energy.