Tomorrow
Tomorrow! That word has such a nice
ring to it! It rolls off our tongues with such ease and pretension of
sincerity. It is, after all, only a day away. It holds so much promise!
It is pregnant with good intentions! No day is held in such high esteem
by the procrastinator as tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the day we begin that
much needed diet and exercise program. Tomorrow is the day we stop
eating junk food, the day we install a regimen of dietary discipline
and aerobic activity. Tomorrow we’ll start burning that fat! Tomorrow
I’ll fix this or that around the house. Tomorrow I’ll write that much
needed letter, make that important phone call, speak that word of
encouragement.
Tomorrow I’ll share the Gospel with
my lost friend. Tomorrow I’ll begin waking a halfhour earlier to spend
time with God and His Word at the beginning of each day. Tomorrow I’ll
begin that Bible reading program that will take me through the
Scriptures in a year. Tomorrow I’ll become a tither. Tomorrow I will
forsake lust, and shake that bad habit!
Sound familiar? It should! We all
have employed this tool of rationalism to justify today’s laziness and
indecision, and to sedate our conscience when good intentions fail to
materialize. I suppose we will always love tomorrow for those
reasons.
What saith the Scriptures about
tomorrow? Jesus said: "Take
therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought
for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"
(Matthew 6:34). Jesus was teaching His disciples to beware of building
too much expectation into tomorrow with regard to life’s concerns. He
taught that the true focus of one’s life should be today’s spiritual
combat, today’s moral challenges, and today’s wrestling with
evil.
Jesus is not opposed to planning and
strategizing. After all, He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. What Jesus warned about was a misplaced focus upon what
shall be to the neglect of what is. The immediate context flows from
6:33: "Seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and His righteousness." Today’s priority
is kingdom righteousness. The evil that opposes such an agenda is
sufficient unto the day: that is, it is all you can handle.
Spiritual victories are not won with
the good intentions of prognosticators and procrastinators. They are
obtained by those who strap on the armor of God today! These engage in
spiritual combat today! They are focused upon today! They get things
done today! They believe that today is the day of salvation. May God
grant this same grace to us all!
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