A friend of mine once told me, “Life is what happens while we’re busy making plans”.   That is so true.  We spend much of our time planning what we will do next, instead of what we are doing right now.  We plan to go to school.  We plan to get married and have a family.  We plan to build the perfect house.  We plan that wonderful vacation or big birthday party.

While we are busy with all this planning, life is going on all around us and we fail to see it.  Katie came home from school with a scrapped knee.  Johnny lost his glasses.  Jodee had a fight with her best friend.   Tyler broke his arm at wrestling practice.  How do we react when our plans are interrupted by life?  When you are looking at the new house plans, do you have time to kiss Katie’s knee?  When you are making out your guest list, do you have time to run Tyler to the hospital for x rays, or does he wait until you have completed your plans?  Today is where we need to be; not yesterday and not tomorrow.

Tomorrow may never come.  We are not gaurenteed that we will see another day.  James tells us that life is but a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes; James 4:13&14.  None of us know that exact time when our life will end.  God alone has the right to decide such things.

Matthew 6:34 tells us, “Take  therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow will take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”  In other words, don’t waste time worrying about what will happen tomorrow, you have enough to deal with today.

The balance is that we all have to make plans for some things in our lives, but we shouldn’t be so caught up in the future that we miss the wonders and opportunities of the present.