Ships into the Sea

January 11, 2012

Today I realized something. I realized that life is hard work. We are always striving to reach a destination (a job, a marriage, a new house, etc.). We are always working for some sort of end goal.

My Video Direction class took me for a whirlwind of sorts tonight. I realized exactly how much hard work I am going to have to put into this semester. How much pre-planning of life I am going to have to do just to maybe reach some goal that I don’t even know really exists yet. How much stuff I am going to have to get done in order to make it to an unknown destination in an unknown town living in an unknown house.

We all put so much work into these unknowns every day. So much stress, which is completely unnecessary, is put into the completely inevitable circumstance. I think about all the hard work we put into these unknowns, and how little work we put into the certain.

I am certain that there is a whole big eternity waiting for me when I die, and I am also certain that what I believe/the work I put into my faith while here on earth decides that for me. I also know that I need to work harder at these certainties rather than stressing about the everyday earthly bothers that really have no effect on my eternity.

25 e“Therefore I tell you, fdo not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 gLook at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. hAre you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his ispan of life?7 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, jeven Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, kO you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For lthe Gentiles seek after all these things, and myour heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But nseek first othe kingdom of God and his righteousness, pand all these things will be added to you.

34 q“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 25-34