Do Not Boast About Tomorrow!

PROVERBS 27:1 

"DO NOT BOAST ABOUT TOMORROW, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT A DAY MAY BRING."

I'd like to say for about the past year or so, I've really been meditating on this verse and its meaning. Understanding that my next breath is not promised, let alone tomorrow isn't even promised. It can be so easy to just assume that I have another 60+ years or so to live here on this earth, but how I continue to pray that I stay far from that mindset. I think it would be kinda scary knowing the day I was going to die, but I also wonder if having the knowledge of that day, would I be using my time more wisely and be redeeming the time He's blessed me with for His glory and not preoccupation with myself? Just a thought...


"Lord willing"..... Lord willing has become a phrase I often use to remind myself that 'If it's indeed the Lord's will for me to be somewhere, than I'll be there'.  


"The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps." Proverbs 16:9


I can make all the plans I want, but in the end the Lord will establish my steps. 


Sometimes circumstances arise in life and we need to make adjustments. You don't always plan for different circumstances that may happen in your life, but rest assured the Lord is at work! =) I came across this quote while reading through 'TableTalk Magazine' 


               " God is in sole, purposeful control of the past, present, and future, both on a macro and on a micro scale, at the interplanetary level and the our-little-life level. God rules over time and space. He has a plan that He is working out perfectly day to day, year to year. This plan extends from creation to consummation. It includes all the good and all the bad, the pleasant and the painful. Belief in God's sovereignty changes the way we look at the world, at people and at their problems. What looks like a mess is actually part of a meticulous divine plan that is being worked out for the good of those who love God." 


Praise the Lord! I for one am eternally grateful that I can rest in His sovereignty. I may have plans for something, but than something completely unexpected happens and I'm needed elsewhere...The Lord knows! And I many times don't quite understand things until after the fact, but then I think back and go "oh ok I see now why You had it happened the way You did." The Lord's way is always the best. 


So if tomorrow isn't promised. Why do I find myself being anxious for things that may never come about? hmmmmm



“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
-Matthew 6:25-34 


"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." Philippians 4:5-6


When we become anxious we are showing our lack of trust in God. How foolish we are...The Lord has been faithful in the past and yet we are worried if He will be faithful in the present and future? It seems so ridiculous. I also think that we have a certain way of doing things and we often feel we know best. But who are we to think that we can counsel the All-Knowing, All-Powerful God on different issues? 


I am going to end this post with a very appropriate quote as a reminder to us of Who we should be boasting in. 


"I was born into a believing family through no merit of my own at all. I was given a mind to think and a heart to feel through no merit of my own at all. I was brought into the hearing of the gospel through no merit of my own at all. My rebellion was subdued, my hardness removed, my blindness overcome, and my deadness awakened through no merit of my own at all. Thus I became a believer in Christ through no merit of my own at all. And so I am an heir of God with Christ through no merit of my own at all. Now when I put forward effort to please the Lord who bought me, this is to me no merit at all, because... it is not I, but the grace of God that is with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)... God is working in me that which is pleasing in His sight. (Heb. 13:21)... He fulfills every resolve for good by His power. (2 Thes. 1:11) And therefore there is no ground for boasting in myself, but only in God’s mighty grace. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. (1 Cor. 1:31)"
-John Piper




Grace and Peace,


Anna-Leah<><