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.
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.
“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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