If Tomorrow Never Comes

Tomorrow (12-21-12) has been in the news for a long time now.  I guess the first time I heard about the supposed end of the world predicted by the Mayan calendar was near the end of last year or just after the first of this year.  Since then it has been in near constant headlines.  A few people write about it because they believe it.  Others write about it because they think it’s complete hokum.  Some write about it to consider the implications of such a prediction economically, socially, culturally, and spiritually.  Most have written about it to poke run at the thought.  But you know, there is a very real chance that tomorrow will never come.  There is a chance that today is the last full day of life we have.  Maybe we should have conversations we’ve been avoiding.  Maybe we should do that thing we’ve been putting off.  Maybe we should hug our families just a little bit tighter tonight.  I mean after all, who knows?

But if tomorrow never comes it will have nothing to do with Mayan calendar or their ability to predict it.  It will be because the longsuffering of God has ended.  It will be because His patience with man has run out.  It will be because the appointed day has come.  It will be because He is ready for His children to come home (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).

I cannot begin to exhaust the reasons for which God has chosen the day that Jesus will return.  I cannot explore His mind or know His way of thinking.  I cannot know the day or the hour.  Neither can any man, or even the angels in heaven (Matthew 24:36).  But I can know there is a day appointed, a day when God will send His Son to collect His saints and call men to judgment.  I can know that one day this earth will be utterly destroyed and all of the works contained therein burned up (2 Peter 3:10).  I can know that, on that day, I will be called to judgment (Hebrews 9:27).

No, tomorrow may never come.  But that doesn’t make it different from any other day that we ever live.  Each day brings the sobering reality that it could be our last.  Each day represents one last opportunity to make preparation.  So how would you spend your last day if you knew that tomorrow would never come?  This just may be it!

-Andy Brewer