The story is told of a man who raised chickens. Among them was a rooster whose occasional crowing greatly annoyed a neighbor. Early one morning the disgruntled neighbor called the farmer and complained, "That miserable bird of yours keeps me up all night!"

"I don't understand," came the reply. "He hardly ever crows; but if he does, it's never more than two or three times."

"That isn't my problem," retorted the neighbor. "It's not how often he crows that irritates me! What keeps me awake is not knowing when he might crow!"

Many of us are like that man. We worry about the difficulties and distressing circumstances that could arise tomorrow. Rather than living a day at a time and rejoicing in the Lord's sufficiency for the present, we become anxious by borrowing trouble from the future.

If you know Christ as Savior, take to heart His words in Matthew 6:34, "Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things." As you choose to trust Him, He will give you rest for your soul, and the peace of God will fill your heart and mind.

Friend, stop foolishly "waiting for the rooster"!  — Richard De Haan