Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. The chapter closes with the practical application of the anxiety teaching to time: do not borrow tomorrow's troubles by carrying them today. The anxiety about tomorrow is the specific form of the anxiety that the whole chapter has addressed: the forward projection of need into situations that have not yet arrived and where the Father's provision has not yet been deployed. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble — today's challenges are enough without adding tomorrow's imagined ones. The present-tense trust in the present-tense Father is the practical posture that the Lord's Prayer (give us this day our daily bread) and the anxiety teaching (do not be anxious about tomorrow) together produce.

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