• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Persecution
    • Recommended Ministries
  • Donate
  • Free Email Updates

Even If i Walk Alone

Instructing and encouraging you to live your life as a disciple of Jesus

burden

Long-Term Planning

January 18, 2018 by Tim Sherfy

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “Every new morning is a new beginning of our life. Every day is a completed whole. The present day should be the boundary of our care and striving (Matthew 6:34; James 4:14). It is long enough for us to find or lose God, to keep the faith or fall into sin and shame.” I find his words to be at once both inspiring and motivating.

long-term planning,planning,retirement,401(k),investments,worry,anxiety,stress,live for the moment,seize the day,carpe diem,Luke 12:13-21,rich fool parable,store up grain in barns,

image © Rawpixel.com via Fotolia

In the American culture in which I live, there is much emphasis on long-term planning. We plan for retirement and financial independence. We make 5, 10, even 20-year plans for our lives, all the while knowing Jesus called it foolishness as none of us has a guarantee of even tomorrow (Luke 12:13-21). It leads me to believe we as disciples of Jesus are getting it all wrong.

[Read more…] about Long-Term Planning

Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: anxiety, burden, Discipleship, mission, planning, priorities, stress, worry

Primary Sidebar

  • mail
  • gab
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • instagram
  • rss

Search this site:

Calendar of Posts

June 2023
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930  
« May    

© 2009–2023 by Tim Sherfy