Know What is Today

How many of us look to the future? Whereas it is useful in some things, in our daily walk with Christ we have to be in the present.

“¹Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.” – Proverbs 27:1 (ESV)

We as Christians are to be working in the present and not concerned with the future.

I know that I am personally a planner and what to be prepared for what might come. This is slightly different that boasting about tomorrow. Preparing is correct, worrying and shouting about how good things will be are certainly not. We cannot control tomorrow and therefore can only prepare for them.

“¹³Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ – ¹⁴yet 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.” – James 4:13-14 (ESV)

We don’t know if we will even make it to tomorrow so how is it that we can boast about it. It will serve us better to focus on today and doing the work of God and when tomorrow comes, do the same.

Are you concerned with tomorrow? What kinds of things are there for you to accomplish to only prepare for tomorrow and live today? Do you know what is today?