Tomorrow is a NEW YEAR, again. Days go on and a new day awaits us as a ‘tomorrow’. And as this tomorrow’s become the present and transitions itself to the past, years pass by. Every passing year in itself holds Joy, sorrow, victories, defeats, some gain, and some losses in each one of our life. However, every Tomorrow and New-Year holds new aspirations and hope on which we human beings thrive.
As this change is constant and as time keeps moving never stopping for anyone, only our God (Christ) is the same as Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and Forever (Hebrews 13:8). So unless and until we are not rooted in Christ, the process of decay continues in us and inevitably we perish. So this New Year it is of utmost importance for each one of us to reform ourselves, to teach ourselves, to discipline ourselves in the Word of God, and get rooted in Christ.
I leave you with this deep meaningful writing from a great man of God, Spurgeon, who talks about tomorrow. Hope it will bring a great understanding to your spiritual journey as you step and sojourney into this New Year. Extracts from “Gems from Spurgeon – 1858”.
TO-MORROW
GLORY, O man, in the harvest that may come to thee next year, when thy seed is sown; but glory not in to-morrow, for thou canst sow no seeds of morrows. Morrows come from God.
Man always looks for a yet-beyond. He is a mariner who never gets to port; an arrow which never reaches the target.
A Christian may rightly look forward to his to-morrows, not simply with resignation, but also with joy. To-morrow! It is one step nearer heaven to a believer; it is one knot more that he has sailed across the dangerous sea of life, and he is so much the nearer to his eternal port. To-morrow is, a fresh lamp of fulfilled promise that God has placed in his firmament, that the Christian may hail it as a guiding star in the future, or at least as a light to cheer his path.
To-day hath no brother, it stands alone, and to-morrow must come alone, and the next, and the next, also, must be born into this world without a brother. We must never look upon two days at once, nor expect that a whole herd of days shall be brought forth at one time.
Boast not of to-morrow, for it is unsubstantial. To-morrow is a fleeting thing. Thou hast not seen it; why dost thou boast of it? To-morrow is the cup which the idiot dreams lieth at the foot of the rainbow.
To-morrow – it is the floating island of Loch Lomond; many have talked of it, but none have seen it.
To-morrow – it is the wrecker’s beacon, enticing men to the rock of destruction. Boast not of to-morrow; it is the frailest and most brittle thing thou canst imagine. Not glass were half so easily broken as thy to-morrow’s joys and to-morrow’s hopes; a puff of wind shall crush them, while yet they seem not to be full-blown.
To-morrow is a thing that we have not yet obtained, and, therefore, not only if we had it would it be foolish to boast of it, but because we have it not, and may never have it, it becomes the very extremity of foolishness to glory in it.
God’s grace always comes with despatch; and if thou art drawn by God, thou wilt run after God, and not be talking about delays. To-morrow – it is not written in the almanac of time. To-morrow – it is in Satan’s calendar, and nowhere else.
The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day ana well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed; but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God, If he loved me yesterday he loves me to-day. Let prospects be blighted, let hopes be blasted, let joy be withered, let mildews destroy everything, I have lost nothing of what I have in GOD.
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