THE GLORY OF YOUR TOMORROW

NO matter how big your yesterday was, your tomorrow can be bigger. In the same way, no matter how small and insignificant your yesterday might have been, there is always a bigger tomorrow in waiting for you. Tomorrow is the biggest room in the world...it is endowed with the capacity to accommodate all the dreams of mankind.

Tomorrow comes with an irresistible force that neither yesterday nor today can withstand. Today can never deny tomorrow its right to come. No matter how horrible today portrays itself, I have one single confidence; it can not last forever! Let today pretend to be so long and frustrating, yet once it is time for tomorrow, today will bow and give way. The same way, nothing can stand against the future God has ordained for you.

I remember when Samaria was passing through tough times; there was hunger, poverty and frustration everywhere, and people were dying. Then came the word of the Lord about tomorrow: “Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria” (2 Kings 7:1).

There is always a word about your tomorrow! Your tomorrow as a child of God is settled and should make you worry less. This is what Jesus said about your tomorrow: “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things...” (Matthew 6:34, NKJV). When God was working through the Israelites to confound the Egyptians, He gave many words tied to tomorrow: “And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be” (Exodus 8:10, 23)

One big mystery that the devil is yet to come to terms with about your life is the beautiful of your tomorrow. He (the devil) is so helpless about your tomorrow, and so because he can do nothing about your tomorrow, he tries to prevent you from seeing that tomorrow. He has succeeded in the lives of some people by deceiving them with the pleasures of sin (for a while), like fornication, alcohol, prostitution, drugs, cultism, crime, etc. One big way the devil succeeds in deflating the big future ahead of young people is through sin. “He that sinneth is of the devil” (1 John 3:8). So, when you live in sin, you have sold your future to satan. For example, each time you commit fornication, something dies in your future! Sin terminates destiny and eliminates your eternal life. Live above sin and I tell you, you will live above the world!

Your tomorrow can turn out an exact opposite of your yesterday. Where you are coming from is not as big as where God is taking you. Your poor background is lost in the shadows of the greatness of the almighty. God has destined you for a life of TRUE GREATNESS. You may be experiencing some pitfalls now, but they are preparing you for peak-fronts. Every set back is a set-up in disguise in the life of a child of God. When life pulls you backward, remember that an arrow is shot by first pulling it backwards...and then comes the launching forward. You are launching forward into greatness.

Yesterday may have been hurt-full; tomorrow will be joyful. Yesterday may have been painful; tomorrow will be gainful. Move on from yesterday. Yesterday is like an artist that tries to paint today as if tomorrow has no beauty. Yesterday is like a judge that tends to convict today so as to kill the hope of tomorrow. Yesterday is like a thief that strives to rob today of the joy of tomorrow. Move away from yesterday. Whatever you have passed through has come to pass (it did not come to stay). There is glory in your tomorrow. “The glory of the latter shall be greater than the former” (Haggai 2:9).

I see glory in the future ahead of God’s people...a glory here on earth and an eternal glory with God in the New Jerusalem that will come from God. The big question is this; how are you living your life? When you live in sin, you naturally attract the atmosphere of satan into your life, and then your eternity will be with him in hell. “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul (in Hell)?” It is never too late now to turn to God, eternity might just be some seconds away and then and there it becomes late. Where will you spend eternity? There is a Heaven to embrace and a Hell to escape. Turn to God now...that would just be the beginning of your walk into glory. Peace.

(Dr. Bukola Williams is a Bible Teacher, Author, and Conference Speaker and is the President of TreasuredHouse International, a ministry with a soul-winning mandate and committed to Replicating The Life of TRUE GREATNESS In This Generation through the teaching of the word of His grace)