The Lord said to me…”I will test my people with a Plumbline,
Amos 7:8 (TLB)
If Tomorrow Never Comes
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"If Tomorrow Never Comes"
is a song recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on his 1989
debut album Garth Brooks
and also appears on The Hits,
This was his first #1 single on the Billboard
Country Singles chart. It is also sometimes referred to as his signature song. "If Tomorrow Never
Comes" was named Favorite Country Single in the American
Music Awards of 1991. It has subsequently become one of Brooks' most
popular songs for other artists to perform. One of the lines in his song was
“if tomorrow never comes, will she know that I love her?”
I
am certain you have heard the slogan, “Tomorrow Never Comes”. Someone has
written, “When the day arrives that you are now calling
"tomorrow," you will call that day "today" and a different
day will be called "tomorrow."
In other words, “Tomorrow never comes”.
MAN’S
BOASTING: Solomon knew something about this word “tomorrow”, consider; Proverbs
27:1 (MSG) Don't brashly announce what you're going to do tomorrow; you don't
know the first thing about tomorrow. Man
in his pursuit of self-exaltation and his tendency of bragging about his plans for
tomorrow and the future are unsafe expectations. The Bible has a lot to say about this subject.
Remember Peter in conversation with Jesus said, even if others stumble because
of you. Peter said “NOT ME”. But look
what really happened. Matthew 26:33-34 (NKJV)
Peter answered and said to Him, "Even if all are made to stumble because
of You, I will never be made to stumble." Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to
you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three
times." Peter demonstrates for us
the nature and result of one’s boasting.
THE
FUTURE: In spite of man’s education, and his supposed knowledge about most
subjects we also know that his insight into the future is greatly limited. Jesus
addresses this problem in a teaching with His disciples. Matthew 25:13 (NKJV) Watch therefore, for you know neither
the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. The Apostle Paul expresses a marvelous truth to the
Corinthian Assembly. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (NKJV)
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part,
but then I shall know just as I also am known. We
don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist.
But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll
see it all then, as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he
knows us! (Adapted from the Message).”
May
the Lord help us to avoid the pitfalls of trying to make tomorrow that it could
ever be!
