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DON'T BORROW WORRY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BORROW GRACE

By Pastor Bob DeKlavon



I am not a doctor and I do not play one on TV.

These will not be posts that are medical or political.

What will be shared here will be biblical.

I can be a bit quirky at times—just a warning.

DECEMBER 16, 1971...

Do you know where you were on that Thursday mid-afternoon?

I know exactly where I was...lying on the side of the road with a broken leg.

My brother had picked me up from school on his motorcycle and we headed home.

We never made it because a man in a car ran a stop sign and hit us.

My tibia and fibula were broken and {sorry} one of my bones was sticking out of my leg.

Now the point of this story is not what happened on December 16th...

The point is what occurred the Thursday before.

I had a friend with whom I talked every Thursday evening [full disclosure—the friend was a girl]. We had an agreement that we would not talk unless we had memorized a verse of Scripture. So—one week earlier, on December 9th—I shared the verse I had memorized.

It was Matthew 6:34... and here is the verse from the New American Standard translation:

“Therefore, do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

The Message paraphrase states this so incredibly well. Here is what it says:

“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now,

And don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.

God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”

Right now—it is easy to be anxious.

Many people are playing the ‘what if’ scenarios over and over in their minds:

What if this thing lasts for months?

What if I lose my job?

What if there are no more trees to make toilet paper???

I hadn’t planned on being in a cast for 7 months with the outlook that I may never run again.

My immediate life changed in a moment and I took a different turn.

You want to know what I did with the extra time I now had?

I listened to sermons/memorized scripture/read my Bible more

Hmm…how do you think that impacted where I am now???

Who knows what God wants to accomplish in your life right now?

Take the energy of anxiety and use it for learning grace.

“Don’t borrow worry because you can’t borrow grace.”

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