Proverbs 27:1

Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.

How many days do we try to have everything mapped out? What we’re gonna do, what our kids are going to do, then what we’re gonna do after that? Nobody knows how much time we actually have available to us. As you reflect on your life, can you look back and notice time that you wish you had back? Time that you foolishly spent pursuing some thing that you had no control over?

Listen again to this passage this time for the Message Bible.

Don’t brashly announce what you’re going to do tomorrow; you don’t know the first thing about tomorrow.

Being self-assured seems to be the ‘name of the game’ in this culture in which we live. This passage suggest the opposite. ‘Don’t be so sure’, but rather the hold things with a loose hand.

Think about something in your life that was completely unexpected. It may be a good thing, it may be a tragic thing. Regardless of that situation being good or bad, one thing is for sure, it wasn’t in your plan.

God calls us to simple living, a surrendered life. A trusting posture. He says all things work together for good for those who trust God.

Is there something in your life right now that you feel fairly sure is going to happen good or bad?

Can you surrender that, let go of being sure and accept that you will take things as they come?

Maybe more often we just need to take a deep breath, yield to the flow of life, so that we can be present in the moments that we don’t get back.

Father, I recognize that you hold all things in your hands. I am grateful for all the gifts you give, all the challenges you take me through. Help me to loosen my grip on feeling like I have to have everything all mapped out. As above, so below.