Never in my life have I been through a year like 2020. Nothing has been the same since the month of March when the shutdown began due to the pandemic. I’m sure the majority of us can relate that entire calendars have been upended. Nearly all of the events that we had scheduled have been cancelled. We hardly ever worried about something being cancelled before the pandemic, unless it was due to inclement weather.
“Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth” (Prov. 27:1). How true is that proverb for 2020? Previously we could schedule plans and simply count down until the day arrived. Not in 2020! We now live day to day. An outbreak of the infection could overtake a city, or state. Churches can shut down if someone comes down with a fever. Governments can decide to shut down businesses if they feel it will slow a possible spread of the virus. Anything and everything changes in just a short moment. We cannot boast of tomorrow, because we don’t know what a day may bring forth.
The apostle James wrote, “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. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (Jas. 4:13-15). I find myself saying, “If the Lord wills” more now than I ever have. Because, honestly, I can’t boast in tomorrow let alone next week or next month.
Beloved, we may not know what tomorrow holds, but we do know Who holds tomorrow!