For many of us, worrying is a part-time job. We have integrated it so well in our daily lives that its second nature for us to worry. They worry about what to wear, what to eat, what to drink, what to say, what to do, basically anything. Some even worry about the terror attacks that occurred 17,000 miles away from where they live, the coming recession 10 years from now or the pending doom that accompanies the fulfillment of the prophecies in the book of Revelation. But like all fruitless day-to-day activities, worrying leads to an unhealthy conclusion that will cause you to worry more: Lack of focus, inability to think clearly, unhealthy emotional and psychological disposition and the ultimate killer – stress.

But life will be too unconventional if we’re not worrying. Besides, some habits are there for a reason; they just need a minor adjustment for it to work well enough to our advantage. Thus, it’s efficient and probably effective to think about those things that we can actually, well, apply the ancient practice of worrying.

Extrapolating from the book of life who urges us not to worry about tomorrow, I will say, it may be safe to worry about today. Besides, faithfulness is not measured in your ability to think, strategize or plan the future, it’s based on how you handle and do things today. There are enough worries today that to think about the future more often is a sin in itself. We have to learn to concern ourselves with how we can be a better person today, how we can have a better attitude today, how we can live a more fruitful life today, how we can handle our finances better today and how we can strengthen our relationships with people and our God, today.

Today is not only tomorrow’s past, but it’s a basis for how tomorrow will play out. If we say we’ll be better tomorrow, we’ll do well in the future or we’ll achieve this or that 10 years from now, today will define if those aspirations will happen.

Our Creator knows what He’s doing, thus He defined and classified “worrying for tomorrow” as sin. He knows there are enough tasks and matters today that we must concern ourselves with. If we deal with it well, faithfully, diligently and excellently as we should have, then worrying about tomorrow may finally appear as what it’s supposed to be all along – a sin we do not need to commit.