One-Day Thinking

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own (Matthew 6:34, NIV).

For the next six months I’m going to ___________.

For the next quarter I promise to ____________________.

This year I commit myself to _______________.
 

Tell me, does this sound familiar? John Maxwell has an inspiring card that he reads each day called, “Just for Today.” It is quite moving and it expresses tremendous goals, but each goal is prefaced by, “Just for today.”

Brilliant. I call it “one-day thinking,” and it is after all, scriptural!

“One day at a time…” is what we sing in the old hymn, but we try to live two months at a time. We worry, we fret, and we sicken ourselves over something that that might happen tomorrow.

To that I offer this response: Plan for tomorrow but live in today. Look at your goal today, be your best today, and keep your promises today. (When tomorrow becomes today—then REPEAT!)

One day thinking offers a simplified life achieving complicated goals. (We don’t have to ask, “What would Jesus do?” We already know that “one-day thinking” is what He told us to do!)