Tomorrow

 

 

“Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring.”

 

Proverbs 27:1

Annie sang about the sun coming out tomorrow; another person said that you shouldn’t put off to tomorrow what you can do today; and my mom always told me that tomorrow never comes. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow – it seems we are all obsessed with tomorrow. We live for tomorrow. Most of us live from paycheck to paycheck, always looking toward tomorrow.

According to psychologist William Morriston, 34% of the 3,000 people he surveyed were enduring today in order to get to tomorrow.

Procrastination is one of mankind’s biggest flaws. Tomorrow we’re going on vacation. Tomorrow we’ll clean the house. We’ll start our diet tomorrow. I’ll get the checkbook balanced tomorrow. I’ll pray tomorrow. I’ll start reading my Bible tomorrow. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

The devil loves procrastination. He wants us to put off those things that we should be doing today. All those things – cleaning house, balancing the checkbook, going on a diet – are all incidentals. The devil’s real plan is to keep us from God, and if he can do that by having us procrastinate in what we think are trivial matters, then the important things such as prayer and devotions become trivial as well.

Mom was right (as usual); tomorrow never comes. When it gets here, it is today. And today is the tomorrow that you worried about. Today is a gift from God (that’s why it’s called the present), and we should be thankful for each and every minute of it.

Take time today to thank God for the blessings He has given you – the blessing of today.