Perhaps you have been on one side or the other of the following exchange (or one like it): “Alright, I understand that you are very busy, but you need to tell me, When will this job be complete?” The answer follows, “Tomorrow.” Perhaps it was here that you discovered how evasive or even illusional the term tomorrow can be, and how it is often used by those who want to make meaningless commitments. They know that when you wake up on tomorrow, it will have already become today, and tomorrow will be yet another day.
God’s Word puts tomorrow in perspective when it says, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:13-14)”
In the next verse James reminds us that, though we don’t know what tomorrow holds, there is Someone who does. “For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. (James 4:15) i.e. Tomorrow is subject to the will of God—as are all subsequent tomorrows. As followers of Christ we must say with the rest of the world, “I don’t know what tomorrow holds,” but we can most assuredly add, “…but I know who holds tomorrow.”
Some procrastinator once coined the phrase, “There’s always tomorrow!” but in fact, the Bible is clear, there will be a last tomorrow. And so it is important that we take care of the most weighty matters today! God states it like this, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself… (Matthew 6:34)”
Consider the urgency of: “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: (Isaiah 55:6)” “…now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2Corinthians 6:2)” “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2Timothy 4:1-2)” We must not wait until tomorrow!