Today's Daily Lesson comes from James chapter 4 verses 13 through 17:
13 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’14Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.15Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.’ 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
Eckhart Tolle says, a spiritual writer who teaches much on the importance of living in the present, says, "It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
Life will never be found in the promises of tomorrow. Those promises are illusory and imaginary -- not promises at all. The only time we have promised is this moment inside this day. It is sad to think how much of this "eternal now" we miss by daydreaming about the tomorrow which never quite seems to arrive.
James says, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin." That is the sin of omission and it may very well be the worst one of them all.
We are to live in the present. We are to eat our daily bread, do our good deed for the day, and not miss all that we might receive and give in the here and now. If we always wait on tomorrow to start living -- to start being the persons we want to be -- then tomorrow will never come. Let's not miss life while waiting on or fretting over the life to come.
Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. And, really, it's the only day that matters.
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