Music Man

Read: Matthew 6:25-34

Do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry
about its own things.
-Matthew 6:34

Meredith Wilson’s musical comedy The Music Man is
known for its memorable toe-tappers, but it also
contains a number of perceptive lines. In one serious
scene, Professor Harold Hill, a fly-by-night con artist,
expresses genuine love to marian the librarian. But she
is always looking to the vague future, never quite
living in today. Hill tells her, “You pile up a lot of
tommorrows, and you’ll find a lot of empty yesterdays.”
Professor Hill may have been unscrupulous, but he
understood the importance of the present.

Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), former U.S. Senate
chaplain, said, “Never attempt to bear more than one
kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds –
all they have had, all they have now, and all they
expect to have.”

Jesus told us, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about its own things” (Mt. 6:34).If
we knew all the good things that were going to happen
tomorrow, we would be overly excited today and
disappointed tomorrow. If we knew all the bad things in
our future, worry and fear and grief would paralyze us
today.

The believer in Jesus Christ puts his faith in the God
of the past, present, and future. By faith, we can walk
securely one day at a time. That day is today!
-Haddon W. Robinson

Why do you worry about the years
That your feet have not yet trod?
Live instead with trust, not fears,
And in fellowship with God. -Anon.

WE LOSE THE JOY OF LIVING IN THE PRESENT
WHEN WE WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE.

OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1999 by Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.