“Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed – tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift.”
EZEKIEL 29-31
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The more I pay attention, the more I realize how little I actually see. There is so much happening around me and just beneath the surface of this world we live in, realities layered like thin veils. If I look just at biology alone, I am overwhelmed. Cells multiplying, atoms vibrating, molecules interacting in an infinite choreography of life that I barely understand. Every breath I take is made of microscopic miracles happening faster and more perfectly than anything I could ever manipulate.
It is almost laughable how often I still try to control tomorrow. I think I can force outcomes, shape the future, or anticipate every possible twist. But on the deepest level, everything in creation keeps whispering the same truth, you see almost nothing, and yet God sees everything.
This is why Rasheed Ogunlaru’s words strike me so deeply, “your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed… tomorrow is a dream, a maybe, a potential gift.” Today is what I actually have. Today is where I meet God. Tomorrow is only a dream, a maybe, a gift I may or may not receive.
Scripture reinforces this reality again and again. Ezekiel reminds me that even the greatest kingdoms fall at the word of the Lord. Egypt believed it was unbreakable, yet God diminished it in a moment. If entire nations and empires can crumble in God’s timing, who am I to think I can manage the outcomes of my small human life. James echoes the same truth through the perseverance of Job, reminding me that the story’s end belongs to God, not me.
And when I hold that alongside the unseen layers of reality, the spiritual realms that Scripture hints at, the divine movements, the immeasurable complexity woven into every square inch of creation, it becomes clear. The idea of control is an illusion. The real invitation is trust.
I am at my best when I surrender the fantasy of controlling tomorrow and truly trust God today. When I stay in the moment He has given. When I focus on the assignment of this hour rather than the imagined outcomes of future days.
Joy is found here, not in the future I am trying to engineer, not in the fantasies I build around “one day,” but in the present moment where God’s Spirit actually dwells. I find peace only when I live in step with what He created me to be and do right now.
To live arrogantly, to live separate from Him, is to disconnect from the very source of life and joy. But when I choose trust, when I choose to love Him and to love the people in front of me today, I begin to live in the reality of His compassion and mercy, the same mercy that carried Job, the same justice that humbled Egypt.
Father, this moment is the only one I truly possess. Keep my mind from racing into fantasies or fears that rob me of Your presence. Keep my heart anchored in what is real, in what is now, in what You are doing beneath the surface of things. This is the lesson, this is the call… simple, but rare in a world that worships tomorrow.
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