TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED
James 4:14
Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Man`s life is but a vapor, which appears and then vanishes away. He can be healthy today and with sickness on tomorrow. Take a page from the virus pandemic. What he has today cannot be certain that he shall have it the next day.
For yesterday has gone and tomorrow may never be ours. We have no clue about tomorrow, because each day comes with its own surprises, troubles, pleasures and sorrows. For one does not know what tomorrow may bring. Man can be assured of the present time. For however long life is, no one can be certain of long life. Scripture speaks of three score years and ten, yet, no one can be sure of arriving to it. (Psalm 90:10)
Tomorrow is in God`s sovereignty and not ours.
Psalm 90:12 – Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
I always ponder, “Is my today tomorrow?” Sometime back my daughter met me and made a request which I promised to attend to the next day. In my words, I told her meet me tomorrow to get what you requested for. So the following day she asked me “Mama, is today tomorrow?” The tomorrow you talked about, is it today? Are we in the tomorrow you promised? I pondered about it and realized that time draws closer to us with each day that passes: tomorrow will soon become today: today will soon become yesterday: yesterday will soon become bygone days and bygone days will soon become history.
The truth is, the finish line draws closer to us with every day that passes, seconds soon become minutes; minutes become hours; hours become days; days soon become years and the years soon become a lifetime.
Proverbs: 27:1 – Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
We mustn’t brag about our plans or sink our hopes in them. God wants us to hold our dreams and plans loosely and say “Not my Will, but Yours be done.” (Luke 22:42)
Brother and sisters in Christ, the bitter truth is that every human being is closer to his /her grave today than yesterday. Do not waste your life thinking you have all the time in the world. The life each of us living is not a rehearsal, it is a reality. Time is constantly in motion, so we have to keep moving. Those great visions each one of us has planned to achieve in future, do them now because delay means decay. The future you have been waiting for is now!
Prayer
On Lord, help me to live the life I was meant to live and make the most of every moment beginning today. I receive the impartation for urgency and the grace to fulfill my destiny on time, in Jesus Name. Amen
Sol.Fiona