What If There’s No Tomorrow?

I was driving to work one morning, doing my daily prayer as usual. Then, while I was praying, suddenly this thought came to me - Why am I keep asking God about my future?

Often, we focus too much about the future. Too much planning, too much thinking, too much questioning, and until we forgotten that what matters most is ‘NOW’.

TBH, I’m at this stage of uncertain. I’m not sure if I’m at the right path, I’m not sure if this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. Then, I realized my prayers these days sounded like this:

“God, I’m not sure about my future, I don’t know how it will look, I don’t know how You’ll fulfill my heart’s desire, but I surrender it all to You.”

That morning, God spoke to me, saying “Stop asking about your future, stop thinking about it; turn your focus to now, to today, to this moment!” Then I recalled a few years back, God told me the same thing – “Stop worrying about tomorrow, you might not even have a tomorrow.” I know this might sound a bit too serious / heavy, but is true, you never know if you would just die the next second.

Then, I started to recall all that happened in my life for the past months. I must say, God is faithful. Although, this wasn’t my ‘dream job’, I’m not living that ‘dream life’, but I have to admit, I am more than blessed. I won’t say that life is perfect, but look, I’m healthy, safe; I have roof above my head, clothes on my shoulder, food on my table, a car of my own; I’m supporting myself, I have people loving me, I’ve made new friends, I have people to care for, and the list goes on. Aren’t these enough for me to enjoy the moment? To be grateful to be alive for this second.

Of course, there are still challenges, its life; but at least, there’re no ‘bad things’ or ‘bad news’ happening. I’m at this stage where I’m expanding my capacity, learning new things, exploring new opportunities. Yes, it might be uncomfortable (a lot), but at least, I’m not disliking whatever I’m doing each day, I’m not hating the way I live my life. There is this joy inside knowing that God will never fail me nor leave me. Even if I didn’t live up to my own expectation of how my 25 should looks like, but I’m glad that I’m still progressing, I’m still me.

Maybe the choices you made wasn’t your best choice or best option, yet, since life (I would say God) has placed you at where you’re at right now, then give your best every second. There’s a saying “Live everyday as if it’s your last.” I have to admit, that I can’t complain about anything in life, because God has blessed me with more than I could ever imagine. One of the most obvious one, was that I get to travel to 6 countries in a row during my internship in 2016. It will always be a reminder to me of how blessed I am. Imagine, an intern gets to go for a work trip like this?! Well, girl, you’re lucky!

People lost hope when they couldn’t see or vision a future. Me too, I’m a person that would plan a lot, and I need to know the motives & goals beforehand. So I keep asking God, what is His plan for my life? What are His calling for me? What’s my life purpose/destiny? However, He already answered it all through His Word, which is to Look to Him, Follow Him (Matt 16:24), Imitate Him (1 Cor 11:1), Love Him & His people, Go & Do His work (Luke 10:37). His plan (commandment) for everyone is actually the same. And like I shared in my previous article, God is the only one that matters, the ‘future’ is just a form of how we fulfill His will & His calling. Every breathe is God-gifted, so allow God to fully utilize your every second, don’t waste it on thinking or asking too much about the future. Let God be God, what we should do is to choose to surrender ourselves to God each day, again and again.

Don’t get me wrong, you would still need to plan and work hard for your future. What I meant here is that don’t cling too much onto the ‘future’ idea, and forgot to enjoy ‘this moment’. Harsh truth, but it’s real that you can’t guarantee you’ll have a ‘tomorrow’. Hence, make sure you don’t regret, and can proudly said "I have finished the race", even if you have to meet Christ the next second.

“Before there is any dream to pursue or accomplishment to achieve, we are to simple rest in God’s love.”

At the end of this article, I want to challenge you to list down the good things in life, it doesn’t have to be huge or special. It is in the simple things in life, God reveals His glory. As simple as a good weather. Then you’ll realized there’s so much reason to be thankful to be alive!

Prayer:

“God, thank You for another day. Thank You that I’m breathing! Thank You for your protection! Holy Spirit, help me to give my best in everything that I do today. Lord, I surrender myself to You, use my every second for Your purpose.”

所求皆所愿，所盼皆所期。皆如所愿，听到的都是好消息。