Tomorrow: O Yeah!

We all have plans, meetings, trips, vacations and dates to look forward to. Yet, deep down how certain are we that they will happen.  That lunch planned for tomorrow is FO SHO, or that vacation this summer is going to be SAWEET! But, are these things promised to us?  Are we powerful or good enough to say that nothing bad will happen to us between this moment and then?  Will something or somebody never get in the way and bring our plans to shucks?  Because we are mere mortals, let us remember that tomorrow is not promised to anybody.  Not the President, not the retired millionaire, not the patient worker who works two jobs, not me, not you, not even my hounddog. Therefore, everyday we are able to enjoy the sunshine and make plans to enjoy yet still more! Let us remember what James wrote to us concerning the future, 

Now listen you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."  Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.  What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.  James 3:13-17