Matt 6:11, 34 “Give us this day our daily bread, 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow.”
Our daily walk as a Christian is a walk of faith, and it is lived one day at a time. 2 Cor. 5;7 verifies this truth; “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” We walk from one crisis to another and trust the Lord to deliver us out of it, even though we don’t see how he is going to do it. It is not our responsibility to figure a way out, but just to trust him through it. That’s the only way we can please him according to Heb 11:6 “For without faith it is impossible to please him.”
So, we see that our entire Christian life is wrapped up in the faith we have in Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul sums it up pretty well when he says in Romans 1:17 “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith.” Then in 2 Cor. 4:18, the scriptures tell us what faith is and is not, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” The Christian is looking into eternity, beyond this temporal, and believing by faith that those things he has been taught from the scriptures concerning Jesus Christ are absolutely true, while the unbeliever is only concerned with the things of this earth. As a believer we accept without question that our salvation is based totally on the veracity of the scriptures. Ephesians 2:8, 9, makes and emphatic statement that cannot be misunderstood, “For by grace (God’s) are ye saved through faith (yours); and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
I don’t think it gets much clearer than that verse. From the moment of our salvation by grace, through faith, until our translation by grace alone, we as believers are to walk in total confidence that the Lord is who he said he is. That’s faith!
The truth of our faith is the trials we face and come through, according to 1 Peter 1:7, 8“ That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
Faith believes that God is still God when you can’t see him; when you can’t hear him, when you can’t feel him; even when you’re in the valley, in the hospital room, in the storm, and yes, even at the grave yard. “Take therefore no thought for the morrow.”