“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.” – James 4:13
In 1968, Business Week wrongly predicted: "With over fifteen types of foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself."
Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, in 1895 said: "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." "
Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955 said: “Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years."
The French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, foolishly said of Robert Fulton’s steamboat: “How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.”
Even the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Albert Einstein was not immune and said in 1932: “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
The future belongs to the Lord, we cannot predict if it will bring happiness or sorrow. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is Lord of all and seek to humbly walk with Him.
“The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.” – C.S. Lewis
God’s Word: “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” – Proverbs 27:1
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