Friday, March 17, 2023

The Future

 

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Anything left for the future

Is never ever done,

The reason is pretty simple

The future never ever comes.

 

I am sure you understand

For experience has taught us that,

Whenever we got around to it

It was a present act.

 

The future is procrastination

And procrastination is a trap,

How can we say tomorrow

When we don’t know about that?

 

There is a place for promises

Promises of a certain sort

But things that can be done today

In the future they will abort.

 

As it relates to routine

Some things we can expect,

However, even in such cases

We sometimes experience regret.

 

The promise of a child

When the evidence is clear

Is a future expectation

That grows as the time gets near.

 

The promise of a salary

At the end of the month

Even though we work towards it

Becomes a routine triumph.

 

A future promise is not guaranteed

Unless it’s a promise from God,

Satan offers alluring promises

But he is a shameless fraud.

 

The Bible gives a caution

Relating to the future,

The uncertainty of tomorrow

Being its principal feature.

 

Why Is It So Hard to Plan for the Future? | Psychology Today Ireland

 

Whereas ye know not what

Shall be on the morrow,

Even one’s life is not guaranteed

For life is like a vapour.

 

For a little more on this matter

Go to the 4th chapter of James,

Do not be like the foolish farmer

Who stood on future claims.

 

“I will pull down my barns,” he said,

“And I will build them greater.

I will feed my soul on such bounty.”

Oh, he could not be happier!

 

He neither considered God

Nor the unpredictability of the future,

God required his soul that night

And he was bound for his sepulchre.

 

Any promise that God has made

Will certainly come to pass

As long as it is not conditional

On someone to perform a task.

 

The coming of the Lord:

That is a futuristic certainty,

We can bank on that as the saying goes

For in that lies our destiny.

 

Concerning the coming judgment

That too is a futuristic fact,

Remember the future is in God’s hand

And we can be sure of that.

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Insight for Living Canada

 

“Trust no future, how e’er pleasant!”

Mr. Longfellow said,

“Act, act in the living present

Heart within, and God o’er head!

 

The future is not reality

I know that sounds quite funny

But it’s a fact we had better grasp

And reject the current folly.

 

Stewart Russell © June 2018

 

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