Key Verse: Verse 4 – “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
I came across the following article in regard to today and tomorrow.
When travelers cross time zones, they set their watches forward or backward a mere one hour. But when crossing the International Date Line at the 180th meridian, one must add or subtract an entire day, depending on his direction. If headed west, he adds a day. If coming east, he subtracts a day from the calendar (which means he lives the same day two times!).
Now imagine you are on a plane, flying north or south along the 180th meridian. Since it would be very difficult to navigate along an exact, imaginary line, your plane would, by a slight variance here and there, be zigzagging back and forth from today into tomorrow and back again.
In fact, when Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd made his second trip to the South Pole, he later reported in the National Geographic that it was impossible to fly along a mathematical line, although he had flown as closely as possible along the 180th meridian.
Man is the only creature who senses there is a tomorrow. This means he can never be totally immersed in the present, knowing that tomorrow with all its uncertainties is just over the horizon. But neither can he live totally in the future, pressed as he is by the demands of today. So he zigzags between the two, and success often depends on a happy balance, which leads us to our key verse: ‘I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work’ (John 9:4).
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Live today as if there is no tomorrow.
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