Tomorrow Is Never Promised

We were born into this world with a purpose. But somewhere down the line we have forgotten the true importance of what living life really means. Are we filling our lives with purpose and design God had planted in our hearts since he brought us here on earth or we letting the world consume us? He said he knows you before he formed you in your mother's womb. We were born with purpose, HIS purpose.  

My heart breaks for what the world has considered purpose. Is purpose staying so busy you have no time for family, missing the memories that could and should be made? Is purpose keeping up with the Jones next door to impress the world and yet we can't even look into our own homes and hearts to see what is really precious in life. It's not the items in your home, it is the hearts and people in it that are the true gift.

When did the world become more important than the simplicity of hearts and family? Our world today is so caught up on things and being offended by everything that we have truly forgotten the true purpose and simplicity of loving others and family values. At the end of the day what can you take with you? You have all these things, the business of life yet, have you left any impressions on the hearts of your family or community, or is that part empty?

I have been going through some health issues and these are questions that are really impressed on my heart. A few friends in recent weeks have lost friends and family members and I hear a lot of I wish I could of or I wish I would have said that. Are we waking up yet to what the world is doing to relationships? Keeping us so occupied we don’t see the simple gifts we have right in front of us, that the lives that have been given to us may not be there tomorrow.  

So, tomorrow is never promised, what are you going to do with that? I hope this is a heart check as it is mine as well.  Would we slow down enough to help another neighbor or person that God aligns in your life and say maybe tomorrow or will we take action now? What if today was the last day to make a difference, what would you do different? Would you stay scared to tell that person your feelings and wait for tomorrow and live with regret? What if we never said it because it makes us uncomfortable? What if tomorrow didn’t come and I didn’t share my heart? Would we live with regrets because you didn’t? There's a point in our life where we have to put our faith over our fear. Would you hug your kids a little harder, stay off the phone and really listen to their hopes and dreams, make them a priority?

I volunteer and work for a Trafficking Ministry and they have done so much and I am beyond words thankful. What if they didn’t say my story matters? Did they know I was on the brink of giving up on life because I myself am a survivor and I didn’t think my story or my life was valuable because I was told different.

Now I am thriving, writing, speaking, taking classes that will incorporate into the purpose God has me on because of those simple words and actions of others.  What if you were that one person, that one link of hope to save another's life because they were hoping not to see another tomorrow? Would you find out what you could do to take action and help be a light of hope in others or would busyness of life say someone else will do something?

I will pray today that something sparks inside your heart and today you will decide, I will slow down and appreciate the lives of those around me : the children, families, strangers, loved ones. and more. The challenge for us all is, what would we do different if we weren't promised another tomorrow? Would you take that trip, chase that dream, fall in love instead of running in fear, take the chance?

It starts with you, really search your heart to ask what would you do? Life is truly a gift; we are all blessed to see another day and enjoy the people God has truly placed in it. This isn't an article of conviction, it's more of one that makes you pause and do a heart check, myself included because society has succumbed us to the world where we can be lost in it and truly forget the things that truly matter and the things that don’t.

God bless, I pray this encourages at least one person's heart today. We are hope givers, we are HIS light in this dark world. What can we do in this day because tomorrow is never promised. So, what difference can you make today? Maybe it’s a text, a phone call, a donation to a foundation that helps people, maybe it's just telling someone else they matter and they are loved, it is whatever he places on your heart.

Walk in HIS purpose it's never too late to start doing what he has called us to do. We take life and the people in it for granted and even God himself so what can we do to change that? Search your hearts and find his purpose and HIS plan because we may not have a tomorrow but if we do we keep living in that mindset, what would we do or say differently and I will leave it at that.

I pray this tugs at all our heart strings, just a little.