Tomorrow!


By Dan B. Kennedy

© 2012b


One of the most fatal things we live with is…Tomorrow.


Tomorrow often takes away our motivation to get necessary things accomplished when we actually have the time today.


Tomorrow can threaten us and make us worry and be anxious about what we haven’t gotten done, or things we might not accomplish!


Tomorrow tends to assume the posture that things will either get exponentially better or horribly worse.


Tomorrow spends our future assets and energy without ever having them firmly in our hand.


Tomorrow eats away at the honesty and beauty of our best relationship with God, by falsely promising that we don’t have to care what God thinks about the way we are living our life

– this moment.


Tomorrow can keep us from making a deeper commitment to God, because we can always do that “sometime in the future”.


Tomorrow holds out for a more convenient time to build a better relationship with our family, our spouse, our children or friends, tempting us to put off pursuing those crucial relationships,

when tender, moldable and permanent bonds can still be genuinely and positively built - before they become inflexible and set in stone in detrimental ways that can seldom again

ever be rectified.


Tomorrow makes us look like saints in all the good things “we are going to do” for our family, friends, church, God, and others.


Tomorrow can, as we dreamingly peer into a mirror, make us unconsciously overlook the daily cleaning up of the ugly smudges (that everyone else sees be-speckling our faces) - if, while we are preening, we only pridefully daydream about the brightness of our future...or try to convincingly tell ourselves over and over,

“I will be a successful person...”,

“I will be a successful person...”,

without seriously bothering to notice the reality of the ugly smudges obviously

dirtying our lives right now.


Tomorrow always softens the potent imminency of Divine Judgment and Reward that each person surely must face, making death seem so far away, when in actuality the very next moment could initiate our final Day of Reckoning before Almighty God.


Tomorrow yawns and irritatedly mumbles, “What-e-ver”, when reminded about the painful hurts that need

the immediate attention of forgiveness.


Tomorrow pulls up the covers more tightly,

over the head of the soul distressed by sin,

and tells it to “sleep just a little longer”:

“You’ve got lots of time – you’re not ‘ready’

to make your soul right with God

…not yet!”


Tomorrow whines at the inconvenience and annoyance of the

shrill piercing and clanging of the urgent alarm

of conviction by the Spirit of God and

the guilt of conscience,

when the fires of sin and procrastination

are burning down yet another “supporting wall”

in the fragile structure of our immortal soul.


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“Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts…”

Hebrews 3:7-19



“Do not worry about Tomorrow,

for Tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Matthew 6:34


Deal with what needs to be done…

“Today”!