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Have you ever noticed how exhausting it is to live through something that hasn’t even happened yet?
A text goes unanswered, and you’ve already imagined what they’re thinking.
A doctor’s appointment gets scheduled, and you’ve already started preparing yourself for bad news.
Your child is struggling, and your mind quietly fast-forwards ten years.
A meeting gets put on the calendar. Someone says, “Can we talk?” Your spouse seems quieter than usual. The finances feel tight. You don’t know what’s next.
Before anything has actually happened, your heart is already trying to survive it (read that again.)
I’ve realized that’s one of fear’s greatest strategies. It doesn’t always try to convince us the worst will happen. It simply keeps whispering, “But what if…?” until our imagination starts living somewhere God never asked us to go.
The thing is, fear and faith both ask something of our imagination.
Fear asks us to picture life without God’s help. It imagines tomorrow as though we’ll have to carry it alone. It fills in the blanks before God does.
Faith uses that very same imagination differently. It pictures a God who is already in tomorrow before we ever arrive. A God who already knows the conversation, the diagnosis, the decision, + the uncertainty. A God who has already gone ahead of us and promises His presence in every moment ahead.
That’s why Scripture calls us to “take every thought captive” (2 Corinthians 10:5). Not because God is trying to police our minds, but because He loves us too much to let fear disciple our imagination. He knows the thoughts we rehearse become the expectations we carry, and those expectations quietly shape the way we live.
Maybe that’s why Jesus said, “Do not worry about tomorrow”. He wasn’t minimizing tomorrow’s realities or offering moral platitudes. He was protecting TODAY’S PEACE.
Tomorrow was never meant to be carried with today’s strength.
So when fear asks, “But what if…?”
Answer with a BETTER question: “What if God is already there?”
Because He is. Always.
And if He’s already in tomorrow, you don’t have to keep living there today. You can be fully present, fully loved, and fully held right where your feet are 🤍
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