I really enjoy my smartphone. There are so many ways this device can be helpful throughout the day. From the basics of texting and phone calls to an app for about any need, you might have. The most recent app discovery I have made is one that turns your phone into a scale. (I don’t know the point where you go from weighing something to crushing your phone, I’m sure that is all explained in the app.)
The thing with all these smartphone apps is that they are powered by the battery of the phone. I hate it when my phone runs out of battery before I run out of the day. I am constantly checking to see how many apps I have open. I try to close them as soon as I am finished with them because I don’t want the app to drain too much power from the battery. Each evening I am dutiful to plug in my phone so it is ready for the next day.
As I was swiping apps closed this week I found myself a little jealous of my smartphone. With a swipe of the finger, my phone forgets what it was thinking about. Unlike me, it doesn’t spend time worrying about what it might forget. With the swipe of a finger, it is done with that app, and on to the next thing. Many times at night, as I am unwinding from the day, I wish I could swipe away all the projects floating around in my head. My night of sleep might go easier if I could neatly put away the things I was working on until the next day.
In the Book of Matthew, Christ tells us this:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not
much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Perhaps the most convicting line in this scripture is at the end…”tomorrow will worry about itself”. Tonight, as I lay my head down on my pillow, I will try to put that scripture into practice.
About the Author: Brian is husband to Dottie and father of two children (Emma 21; Nick 19). Brian has served as Executive Pastor at Real Life Church in Springfield, Il for 16 years. He has maintained a private counseling practice for over 20 years and has worked as a school psychologist for over 25 years. Outside of his work life, you might find him tinkering with old motors, spending time with his family, or fishing lakes and ponds.