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What Does the Bible Say About Worry about the Future?
The Bible steadies the anxious heart about tomorrow with a simple truth: the God who holds the future is good, and He goes before you.
We cannot control the future, and worry cannot change it. Jesus gently reminds us not to borrow tomorrow's troubles, but to trust the Father who already knows what we need and holds every day to come.
Scripture is full of promises for the unknown road ahead: God goes before us, His plans for us are good, and nothing in our future can separate us from His love. We can face tomorrow because He is already there.
Key Bible verses
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
Matthew 6:34 · King James Version (public domain)
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
Jeremiah 29:11 · King James Version (public domain)
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 · King James Version (public domain)
“And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 31:8 · King James Version (public domain)
How this points to Jesus
Jesus holds tomorrow in His hands, the same hands that were pierced for us. Because He conquered death, our future is ultimately secure, no matter what this life brings. We do not know what tomorrow holds, but we know who holds it, and He has promised never to leave us.