Tomorrow,, Tomorrow!!

 Greetings to you all in the  name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     James 4:13-14 says, “ 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.”

     We live in a wing that has twelve rooms and our room is, number twelve.  We are at the end of the hall and each time I leave the room, I can look up to the left and right and see the names of each resident.  In the past year, some have come for a short stay and left.  Other “old timers” also disappear as they pass away one by one.  Five have died during the past eleven months.  Just when you think you get to know some of them, they are gone.  One lady across the hall in room eleven, was only 58 years old when she passed away.  Another lady, young for such a place, who could not speak, suddenly was transferred to another facility.  She could not say one word to me but just mumbled.  She had things to say, but couldn’t get them out of her head to her mouth.  She would sit for a spell during the service on Sundays.  Other times, she would just walk around as I spoke.  I never will know this side of heaven if she understood or if it made any difference to her life.

     The passage above reminds us of the brevity of life.  The woman mentioned above was a scientist, and nurse and had been involved in cancer research.  Then, in less than a year, she could no longer speak or take care of herself.  James says that we make all kinds of plans as if we have all the time in the world, but in reality, we don’t even know what the next minute will bring to our lives  Vapor doesn’t last very long  You can watch it rise from a boiling pot and then almost instantly disappear less than six inches from the pot.  I have to admit that I spend far less time building relationships these days.  Oh, they are important, but I tend more to get to the point a lot quicker because I may not be here tomorrow nor may the person to whom I am talking, whether young or old.  Most of us hae people for whom we are praying, especially for salvation.  We hope and pray that someone will get to them before it is too late.  We are probably that “someone” that will take the message of salvation to them.  We often wait for the ideal circumstance to make our plea for salvation but it is never quite what we desire, so we hold off for a more convenient time when conditions are perfect, only, they probably will never be perfect.  Praise God for the time He has given to us.  May we use it wisely.