This past weekend my wife and I had a nice ride Saturday morning. We left the bikes out in the driveway, thinking that we might take another ride that afternoon.
It was a very hot, muggy afternoon so it wasn't until around six pm that we decided to go out for a nice evening ride.
The forty plus miles or so were very nice. There wasn't a lot of traffic on the back roads where we like to ride and the wind felt nice as we rode along.
But then something interesting happened. As we headed home and turned onto a side road, there was a noticeable drop in the temperature. It felt rather nice actually! But at the same time that I noticed the cool air, I could see puddles on the ground and wet pavement around us.
Apparently a rain cloud passed over our neighborhood while we were elsewhere, riding.
Funny thing is, we never gave a thought to the possibility of rain. If I had know that, I would have worried about slippery roads. Those first fifteen minutes of rain always have me wary. Not to mention the fresh grass clippings we saw in too many places... Instead, we rode blissfully unaware, free of worry.
I wondered about the times when it did not work out that way. Times when I let worry stop me from moving forward.
But, as Matthew 6 says,
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matt 6:25-34 (NIV)
Truly each day has enough trouble for itself, and all the worry gains us nothing.
