You have enough to think about today. So, how will it help you to worry about tomorrow, today? The short answer is…it won’t. And a longer, much more efficient answer can be found in red letters in the Bible. (for those of you unfamiliar with the Bible, red letters are used when it’s Jesus talking)
Think about tomorrow for a minute. It never really gets here. Right? It’s always “out there.” Somewhere beyond the next sunrise. Somewhere in the future. The future is coming, but it never really gets here either. That’s because it hasn’t happened yet. And when the future does happen, it’s today. Not out there in the future.
Today is the only day you can actually do anything about. Tomorrow isn’t here yet, and yesterday is over and done with. (pardon my ending a sentence with “with”, but I’m sure you’ve heard the expression) Anyway, since today is the only time you actually live in, shouldn’t your focus be on what you can do today? That should be a rhetorical question, but sadly too many people are so fearful of what the future holds they let today slip away.
And when today slips away, what does it become? Tomorrow? Nope. It immediately becomes yesterday. A saying I coined many years ago is this: “Today is yesterday’s tomorrow and tomorrow’s yesterday.” Feel free to pass that on, but be sure and give me credit so I can continue to feed my family on all those royalties. 🙂
Wow…time is really a weird thing, isn’t it? When Jesus said “do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things“, He was illustrating how futile it is to worry about tomorrow. It’s so futile, in fact, that we should let tomorrow worry about itself. Hmm…can a tomorrow do that? Well, I’m not gonna worry about it. How about you?
Stay tuned…
