That choice was simple: they decided they should be the ones responsible for knowing what was wrong and right. Thousands of years ago, in a utopian paradise called the Garden of Eden, humanity made a tragic choice and set us on a path. There is another life, a more important one. If this life is all we have, we would say, “Let’s eat, drink, for tomorrow we die!” ( 1 Corinthians 15:32).Īnd yet this life is not all there is. We would seek only for our own pleasure, as Paul tells us. Left to this reality, we would be discouraged and depressed. We can spend decades building something good only to watch it destroyed in an instant. Many things don’t work out the way that we planned. We don’t like to think about it too much, but nothing lasts in this life. Our life is “but a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” ( James 4:13-17). James speaks on the same theme in the New Testament, telling us that we are foolish for speaking confidently about what we will do tomorrow in business or life. We are told not to boast about tomorrow because we don’t have any guarantees what will happen ( Proverbs 27:1). The Bible makes a difference between our plans and God’s purposes. Where Does the Bible Say Tomorrow is Not Promised?

The Bible is concerned for our future, so concerned that the writers often speak of our plans, teaching us that tomorrow is not promised. A recent celebrity example is Chadwick Boseman, a terrific actor who succumbed to cancer in the prime of his life. We grieve when the old pass on to the next life, but it feels more traumatic when someone young and healthy suddenly dies. Sometimes our plans for tomorrow awry in more tragic ways.

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