Faith

Tomorrow. Very few words have impacted the world as negatively as the word "Tomorrow". The word by definition is not the problem, it's how we use it in context. I could not even estimate how many times I have said; "I'll get to it first thing tomorrow." or "I'll change _________ tomorrow". You can fill in the blank to complete whatever was pushed off into that black hole called, tomorrow. For me personally, I have noticed that many of the things I push off until tomorrow, are spiritual. The variation covers all the bases; serving, reading the Word, praying or even leading. The question is, what if there is no tomorrow? I'm pretty sure there are no official statistics on this but, how many who have left something undone until tomorrow, have been shocked when tomorrow doesn't come for them? Well, not exactly sure about shocked but you get the point. My favorite verses on our overconfidence about tomorrow is from James 4: 13-17 is: "Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ' If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." What do we know is "the right thing to do" but are not doing today?