What about tomorrow?

     It's packing day.  Sigh.  Leaving these cool, beautiful mountains to head back to heat and chores and gearing up for back to school.   Mercy, back to school and schedules and homework and deadlines. Lord, help me to remember that Your grace is always sufficient.  How quickly we can forget that our Father won't give us today, on this peaceful Lord's day, what we will need tomorrow or next week.  Nope, He doles out His manna solely on a daily basis. But greedy, worried girl that I am, I want to either hoard today's manna for tomorrow or borrow tomorrow's manna for today.
      Lord, when will we trust that You'll give us exactly what we need tomorrow, when tomorrow actually arrives?   We don't want to be like the grumbling Israelites in the desert--always looking back with regret and ahead with fear and doubt.   You are our faithful God who never falters in even the smallest detail and who never fails to provide exactly what we need when we need it.
     If God can part the Red Sea and then swallow the pursuing Egyptians,  He can surely part the seemingly impossible paths ahead of us.  If God can send quail and manna to His hungry people, He can surely send us daily nourishment to encourage and empower and strengthen us in all our tomorrows.  If God can provide water out of rock to His desperate people, He can surely quench our thirsty souls with the Living Water that never disappoints and always satisfies.  If God can lead His people through the desert with a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day, then He can surely guide and direct us and those we love in all our ways, for He has promised never to leave us or forsake us. (Heb. 13:5)
     "You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand." (Ps.16:11)  In the mountains or the laundry room.  At the beach or the carpool line.  At home or in school.   No matter where we are or what we may face, You will show us the paths of life in every situation.  You will fill us with joy in Your presence, and so we trust and say, "Lead us on, Lord!"  To God be the glory.