Someone once jokingly said, “It is senseless to use the word tomorrow because tomorrow never arrives; when it dawns, immediately it is called today.” God’s Word tells of some men who made business plans for tomorrow. James reminded them that tomorrows are filled with uncertainty. Even if tomorrow arrives, how could they know assuredly that they would be alive to enjoy it? “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)”
The brevity of life, and the uncertainties associated with tomorrow are not pleasant thoughts, but the next verse in the passage says, “For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. (James 4:15)” While we are unable to predict the future or our roles in it, the Bible tells us that God knows the future as well as the past—He is omniscient (all knowing). He can make plans for tomorrow and be certain of their fulfillment—He is omnipotent (all powerful). He knows where He will be on tomorrow—He is omnipresent (everywhere present). Some will smirk at the idea, supposing that if there is a God, He must be as uncertain and vulnerable as every man. But he is a fool who would own a god that is no stronger, or wiser than himself. Based only upon the visible evidence around you, God must indeed be all that the Bible professes Him to be. “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (Romans 1:20)”
We can certainly trust this God with all of our tomorrows. As the chronicler of the southern kingdom of Israel once wrote, “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. (1Chronicles 29:11)”