“Que Sera, Sera. Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see. Que Sera, Sera. What will be, will be.”
A while back, someone shared with me a personal misfortune that had a slightly humorous result.
“Oh well, que sera, sera.” I blurted out.
Later, I wondered if it was really appropriate for a Christian to be quoting Doris Day’s song about fate: “Que sera, sera. The future is going to be what the future is going to be. Whether we win the lottery or get struck by lightening, there’s nothing we can do about it. So we may as well not worry. What will be, will be.”
I decided that, on the one hand, there is some biblical truth to que sera, sera. As Christians, we simply shouldn’t worry about the future. Here’s how Jesus put it.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?…. Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”1
Christians, Jesus says, have no need to worry about the future, not because we are subject to random, impersonal fate and there’s nothing we can do about it, but because the God of the universe, who knows everything and who is in control of everything, is loving and compassionate. And even though we may suffer terrible things – things we may be completely unaware of now and have no control of in the future – we know that they are ultimately for our good and for God’s glory.
We Christians have no need to worry. And if we are going to worry, Jesus says, we can maintain our sanity by confining it to events in the present twenty-four hours.
So set your alarm clock and calm down.
This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.
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