DO NOT BOAST ABOUT TOMORROW

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.”

James 4:13-16

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” – Proverbs 27:1

In 1964, the RAND Corporation conducted a long-term forecasting report, putting questions to 82 experts in various fields to come up with a number of predictions for our times.

Here's a selection of predictions their predictions and the earliest year they thought each could be achievable.

• 1980: Robots as household servants.
• 1980: Manned landing on Mars.
• 1995: Human lives artificially extended by 50 years.
• 1995: Automated voting.
• 1998: Directly recording information to the brain.
• 1999: A military force on the moon.
• 2000: Two-way communication with extra-terrestrials.
• 2015: Long-duration coma to allow a form of time travel.
• 2020: Breeding of apes and other animals for menial work in the home.

“Primitive forms of artificial life will have been generated in the laboratory,” the report goes on. “A universal language will have been evolved ... (and) on the moon, mining and manufacture of propellant materials will be in progress.”

We do not know what will happen tomorrow. Today in prayer, confess any sin of boasting in the future and trust in Jesus for all of your days. 

“I never worry about the future, it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein

God’s Word: “Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.” – James 4:13-16