Tomorrow

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 23:18
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

What is tomorrow if we have no hope for a future?

We all make plans but none of them are within our control. Tomorrow is not promised to us.

Proverbs 27:1

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Making plans is not boasting, it has an element of accountability. Parents make plans for their children. Teachers make plans for their students. Businesses have plans to satisfy stockholders. We all have invested interests in making a better life.

Looking to all of those plans and many more we will recognize a lack of total control. The biblical definition of vanity is emptiness of expectations. Lamentations is full of advice about vanity. We might find those passages unpleasant, even negative.

We will find an abundance of negativity in this world if we are looking for it. It is all around us and seems to be unavoidable. Making long range plans can only avoid known dangers. We would not make plans to visit a region that is about to be hit with a category 5 hurricane. We would not plan a trip to a park that we know is closed. 

We tend to avoid things that will ruin our plans.

God has a plan for those who trust in Him. God has the power to insure those plans will be successful.

Do our plans align themselves with God’s plan?

Hebrews 6:16-18 English Standard Version

16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. 17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Finale

Luke 24:28-35 English Standard Version

28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, 29 but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 31 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. 32 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” 33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Hidden quietly in these passages is an all important concept. No one can give you His body and His blood except Jesus Christ. “Here, this is my body, take and eat.” Communion is not a ceremony it is an experience. Perform a ritual and you have acted out a play that is nothing more than yesterday’s memory and yesterday is dead and gone.

This relationship we have with Jesus is too important to treat Him like a habit.

It is no mystery that Jesus disappeared as soon as their eyes were opened and they came to know Jesus for who He truly is, seated on the throne of heaven and with us by faith.

The miracle of life is found here, not in our expectations for today or tomorrow. These two even with the late hour that they urged in verse 29, left that same hour to change direction.

Jesus changed everything. They went back to Jerusalem and sought out the eleven. They heard the testimony of others and shared their experience. They joined the family of God.

It is up to each of us to do the same by faith.

Where are you going today?

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