It’s good to look ahead and plan, but the way we approach this makes all the difference between eternal success and failure. We need to remember that a tomorrow planned by God is infinitely superior to a tomorrow planned our way. This means listening to Him – a daily discipline of practising His presence and hearing His personal word to us; and trusting Him. If we truly trust, we will leave tomorrow in His hands. Rather than assuming it will be a certain way, we trust God for the best outcomes in His sight. The apostle James puts it like this: ‘Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that”’ (James 4:13-15). Let us approach tomorrow with the attitude, "If the Lord wills." His best is better than ours!
