In honor of Mark

 In honor of my teacher Mark Arrington being with the Lord, I will certainly try and think hard about issues, as he did as our teacher and asked us to.

A hard issue for many Christians is the statement of Jesus "every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire (Mt 7:19)." This is a verse that (some) Christians say, makes them  anxious about tomorrow, in their own case, since this an eschatological statement.

There is a simple-to-state solution about this anxiety, that Jesus already made in the previous chapter, and it is sufficient in itself, if we take it: "So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for  itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own (Mt 6:34)."

Although a command to not do something is also "enough," sufficient if obeyed, the verse (6:34) has a command, but it also has teachings supporting it.  1) tomorrow will care for itself; 2) each day has enough trouble of its own. I don't know why this translation changed the literal words of this second part,  but at least it put them, the literal words, in the margin: "sufficient for the day is its evils."  This is a teaching that is greater than what "each day has."  This is also a statement that whatever evil each day has, is sufficient for the day!  It's one thing to know that each day has trouble, or "enough trouble of its own."  It's quite another to recognize that Christ, the first and last, who died, and has risen from the dead (Rev 2:8), is the one who states to us, that a day's trouble is sufficient for that day.  If He says that the trouble of today is sufficient for today, then that implies that tomorrow's trouble is not upon us to worry about, from God.  In another post, we can see more, why (from Mt 12:33, NASB95).