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

Application: 

We don’t know what tomorrow holds, the Bible says, but too many people strut around talking boldly about what they’re going to do with it. What does God say about such arrogance? Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what a day might bring. It’s a sin, then, to brag about all the deals we are going to cut without a thought to what God’s mind is on the subject. The hospital emergency room is full of people who had plans for tomorrow. So is the cemetery.

In James 4:13–17, he wrote God hates pride; therefore, James continues to confront his readers’ arrogance. If spoken in modern English, the phrase “Come now” would be equivalent to “You’ve got to be kidding me.” These believers had plans for the future and had sketched in the details fairly specifically. They had a timetable (today or tomorrow), a location (such and such a city), a schedule (a year), a plan (to do business), and a determined conclusion (to make a profit).

Let’s be clear: God is not against making plans. But it’s one thing for a believer to make plans and another to think himself sovereign over them. After all, you do not know what tomorrow will bring. These people didn’t allow for contingencies. They were definitive, had an air of self-sufficiency. But life has too many variables for you to guarantee your tomorrow. God’s kingdom agenda is assured because he’s an omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipotent (all-powerful) eternal King. Your agenda is uncertain at best. You’re like vapor that vanishes. Here for a moment and then gone.

You must acknowledge that your plans fall within a larger, controlling reality: the will of God (4:15). So make your plans (see Prov 16:9), but then submit them to the Lord for approval. God is excellent at interrupting plans. To do something “if the Lord wills” is not a pious phrase but a philosophy of life. Jesus’s “food” was doing the will of his Father (John 4:34), so put it on your menu. To accomplish his will in your life, God will interrupt your program. Will you humble yourself and accept it? Or will you boast in your arrogance about your future? (4:16–17).

*Reference: Tony Evans, The Tony Evans Bible Commentary (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2019), 607–608, 1345

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