A Winter Storm Advisory is in effect tonight and people are crawling down the isles of Wal-Mart snatching up every last loaf of bread and gallon of milk. Meteorologists are calling for freezing rain, sleet, and some ice accumulation (as best as they can predict). This place may be transformed into a winter wonderland overnight…we may be barricaded into our homes by sheets of ice…or it may be that those bright, yellow buses are running on schedule tomorrow. We like to think that we’ll know…but we really don’t. That’s why it’s called a forecast: an estimate or prediction of what conditions could be.
As much as we like to plan things out, there are times and seasons that we will not be able to anticipate. God’s plans and powers don’t fit into some 7-day forecast where every temperature change and storm can be tracked and calculated. “For you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.” (James 4:14)
Life is uncertain from day to day. We know not what shall be on the morrow. “My days are like an evening shadow, and I wither away like grass.” (Psalm 102:11) For that reason, we are to live each day as if it were the last we were given.
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