(July 17, 2017 at 7:05 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: What he is saying here is, "Don't worry about tomorrow. Don't save money, don't store food for the winter, don't plan for retirement... live for today and trust that God will make everything work out. This is some of the worst advice in the entire sermon, and it seems that most everyone recognizes it, even if they pay lip service to it. In much the way that Christians typically ignore Jesus' instructions to sell their belongings and give them to the poor, we all ignore this inane instruction to live without concern for tomorrow (Matt Dillahunty)."I always took it back in the day as a sort of lame "don't worry, be happy" sentiment. Despite being literalists, this was "clearly" not to be taken literally, but more as "do what you can, leave the rest with god" which leads to the so-called Serenity Prayer, "God grand me the grace to change the things I can, accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference".
What I most certainly DID take from this was that if you mean well, try your best to do well, and trust god with what's beyond your powers, everything WILL be okay. When it wasn't, that was the beginning of the end for my relationship with Christian thinking.
