Tomorrow will take care of itself meaning

What does “Tomorrow will take care of itself” really mean? I have come to believe that few sayings of the Master, Jesus Christ, have been more quoted and less understood. When he said, “Take no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow will take care of itself,” he was not offering spiritual comfort for anxious moments; he was describing a different way of living. The meaning of “tomorrow will take care of itself” cannot be discovered unless we are willing to let the words confront the structure of our own daily experience.

So let me ask you directly, and not rhetorically: is this the way you live your life? Do you actually move through your days without mentally stepping into tomorrow? Do you believe this invitation is practical? And if you quietly feel that it is not, then we must ask with honesty why such instruction would be given at all. The Master did not speak carelessly. If he said these words, then they must invite something real.

When I turn to other translations of the Bible other than the King James version, such as the New International Version, the emphasis shifts. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34 NIV. In this rendering, the instruction becomes psychological. The focus rests on anxiety. It becomes advice about managing worry. Yet the original phrasing carries greater weight. “Take no thought” is not merely an invitation to calm emotion; it is an invitation to relinquish the compulsive occupation of awareness with the never ending voice in the head. In its simplest sense, “Tomorrow will take care of itself” means that life is not meant to be lived in advance through anxious thought, but received in the present through trust in the Divine order.

Not About Worry, But About Unity of Mind

This distinction matters because the New International rendering, while pastorally gentle, subtly divides the personal mind. It creates the worrier and the one who must attempt to stop worrying. It produces internal conflict, as though one part of you must discipline another. But the Master was not teaching inner division. He was inviting unity. What St. Paul described as “Putting on the mind of Christ” points toward this deeper wholeness. When the Master said, “Give no thought,” he was being literal. He was not suggesting better thinking; he was pointing beyond the dominance of thought itself.

You know the condition I am speaking of. The human mind rarely rests. It narrates, anticipates, calculates, rehearses, and defends without pause. It runs like a badly tuned radio that is never switched off. The Master did not live from that restless stream. He thought when thinking was necessary, but he was not governed by thought. His life flowed from alignment with the Divine, and the Divine does not think in the fragmented manner that characterises ordinary human awareness. Human thinking is always dualistic. The thinking of the Master was not. As it is written in the Bible, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8 KJV). To understand the meaning of “Tomorrow will take care of itself” is therefore to glimpse a different quality of awareness altogether — a life lived from Presence rather than from “thinking about.”

A Radical Faith That Changes the Origin of Action

This invitation to allow tomorrow to take care of the things of tomorrow is the beginning of radical faith in the Divine. It is where you honour the words, “For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things” (Matthew 6:32 KJV), and also, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom” (Luke 12:32 KJV). You are told that in seeking first the Kingdom, “All these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33 KJV). The order is deliberate. The Kingdom is primary. Provision follows. However, the Kingdom of Heaven cannot be entered by way of thinking alone. Thinking can be the signpost, but it is not the territory.

This does not mean passivity. It does not mean neglecting responsibility or abandoning action. Rather, it changes the origin of your action. Out of the silence of no thought, your life begins to unfold in the way the Divine intended it to unfold. Decisions still arise. Work is still done. Commitments are still honoured. But they no longer proceed from anxious rehearsal of tomorrow. They arise from present moment awareness, and from that awareness life unfolds naturally. When you cease attempting to secure the future through constant thought, you become available to the way in which the Divine unfolds through you.

If you have read this far, then something in you is at least willing to consider that there may be more to this teaching than advice about worry. That is the purpose of this series, Give No Thought. The essential step at this stage is simple: to acknowledge, even intellectually, that there could be a way of living corresponding to what the Master described as “Life more abundantly” (John 10:10 KJV). If such a life was promised, then it must be possible.

To discover the deeper meaning of “Tomorrow will take care of itself,” you would need to explore the practice of giving no thought — not as denial, not as suppression, but as disciplined return to Presence. This practice, together with the reflections that follow, invites you into the unfolding of a life lived as the Master intended: not merely free from worry, but transformed through the renewal of the mind. The journey begins with willingness. The rest unfolds.

To understand the core teaching that undergirds this reflection, read: Take No Thought Explained.

To browse the complete series and see how each piece fits together, visit: Take No Thought Meaning Series.