Live For Today.

I borrowed a CD from the church library and there's a song called "Live For Today" it's by Natalie Grant. It's an upbeat song. I love the chorus. "I'm going to live for today, going to follow in Your way. I'm going to let my little light shine like there's no tomorrow. I won't worry about the past, I know my future is intact. So I choose to live my life in one way, I'm going to live for today." I love that. I made that my status on facebook. I, however, have to sit back and think. Do I really live like that? The honest answer is, no I do not. I'm not a worrier. I'm a thinker. I think think think about things. I think about things that would probably not happen. I think about what I should have said in that conversation. I think about what I will say in a future conversation (again, that may never happen). One of my favorite Bible verses is the good old "

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."~Mathew 6:34

I have to think this often. I also love the verses that come before this:

  “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?  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?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  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?  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."~Mathew 6:25-34


Can any one of you by worry add a single hour to your life? How amazing is that. No amount of my worrying or over thinking about the future or about the past can add a single second to my life. Why should I waster any of my precious seconds/minutes/hours/or even days worrying or over thinking. I know I'm going to be provided for and taken care of. 


As Natalie sings. I want to "live for today" I want to enjoy the moments right in front of me. I want to shine and be happy where I am and happy do whatever it is that I'm doing at this moment. This applies to my prayer life. I drift, I start thinking about other things, then I start imagining those non-existent conversations again. All the while, I see God waiting patiently and thinking "Ahem, you were having a conversation with ME." I want to be involved in the moment. 


I know there are future things one should think about. But not worrying. Worrying can't add a single hour to my life. So here's to living life for today. I'm going to give it a shot.