27:1 – Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
I’ve always read this verse as a warning about bragging about good things to come. It’s hubris and foolishness on our part to assume we know what next year, next month, next week, the next day, the next hour, or even the next minute will bring into our lives.
If we could peek through the keyhole of the front door of Windsor Castle, we just might be able to barely see a sliver of the entrance hallway. If we then claimed to know what’s happening in all the other rooms in the castle, people would think we were (as we say in Texas) “tetched.”
Peering into the future is just like that. We see only a sliver of reality – our own. Then, we claim to know everything that is going on, and everything that will be going on in the rest of the universe.
(Yes, I said universe. Do you know what’s happening at this instant on Mars, or on the moon, or in the Horsehead Nebula? Or how about what’s going on with your neighbor? Neither do I.)
Since our knowledge is so limited, wouldn’t ANY claim to know the future be boasting? Maybe the boasting isn’t about what we’re going to do, or what’s going to happen. Maybe the boasting is claiming to know for sure.
The cool part? Since we really don’t even really know the present, we can’t hope to know the future. But, God lives in the present and knows the future, and He wants the absolute best for us.
Which means we are always walking by faith. When we trust He loves us and wants good things for us, this is an exciting verse to live by.
