TOMORROW
If tomorrows are not to be boasted of, are they good for nothing? No, blessed be God. There are a great many things we may do with tomorrows. I will tell you what we may do with them if we are the children of God. We may always look forward to them with patience and confidence that they will work together for our good. We may say of the tomorrows, “I do not boast of them, but I am not frightened at them; I would not glory in them, but I will not tremble about them.” Yes, we may be very easy and very comfortable about tomorrow; we may remember that all our times are in His hands, that all events are at His command; and though we know not all the windings of the path of providence, yet He knows them all; they are all settled in His book, and our times are all ordered by His wisdom. And, therefore, we may look upon the tomorrows as we see them in the rough bullion of time, about to be minted into every day’s expenditure, and we may say of them all, “They shall all be gold; they shall all be stamped with the King’s impress, and therefore, let them come; they will not make me worse — they will work together for my good.” Yea, more, a Christian may rightly look forward to his tomorrows, not simply with resignation, but also with joy. Tomorrow to a Christian is a happy thing; it is one stage nearer glory; it is one step nearer heaven; it is just one knot more sailed across the dangerous sea of life, nearer to the eternal port. Tomorrow! the Christian may rejoice at it; he may say of today, “O day, you may be dark, but I shall bid you goodbye, for lo, I see the morrow coming, and I shall mount upon its wings, and shall fly away and leave you and your sorrows far behind me.”
