Only Enough for Today

"Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness."                   Lamentations 3:22-23

    I have heard this verse so many times, "the Lord's mercies are new every morning." Great verse; but it never really meant that much to me until I read the story of the Israelites in Exodus this morning, when God sent them Manna to eat. He gave them sustenance every morning, enough for each day; but here's the commandment that was the kicker: they could only gather enough for each day. No saving or it would go bad and attract worms, no taking more than you need or others wouldn't have enough. But if everyone followed the commands and trusted God, they would all have enough to eat; they would all have enough to sustain them...
      My life has been CRAZY lately! Lots of changes going on that I never predicted would happen. I'm being put into some positions that I never thought I would be and put in others that I had dreamed of for a while.
Basically, I'm being stretched.
A lot.
And usually whenever this happens, God shows me something amazing to spiritually fill me up completely and overwhelmingly to get me through this season. Something that I could constantly look back to and it would give me the strength to get through a particularly hard day or just remind me that He's still working. But not this time.
    God was telling me today that He wants me to live on the same concept in His grace right now as the Israelites and the Manna. I didn't realize that in those past seasons I would fill up with all of God's glory and power, but then rely on myself to sustain the grace that God gave me. I was still living in my own control instead of just relinquishing everything over to Him. The Lord is really pushing me this season to just be filled up every day by Him and live in His grace and mercies. To rely on Him each new day for the sustenance He wants to give me. That's how He intended me to live: fully dependent on Him for everything. I can't store up on yesterday's grace because it wasn't meant to be enough for more than yesterday's circumstances.
I have to fully trust on Him just to live in each day. It's kinda scary. But it's also the best place I could ever be in, so intimate with my Savior that I can only go to Him with everything. There is no other option. It's freeing. To just live in God's grace and mercies for each day.

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34