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“Emily is scheduled to return from tomorrow…tomorrow.”
My wife called me on a layover in Korea on her way home from a short term mission trip to Mongolia. I e-mailed friends and relatives with the good news: Em’s coming home, safe. Her call was at 6:30 AM on Sunday Korean time but it was only 4:30 PM Saturday here.
The international dateline is sometimes confusing attempting to figure out what time it is “over there” or even what day it is. And I saw an opportunity to make a play on words, thus the “return from tomorrow…tomorrow.”
She returned with the feeling it was all too short and wanted to go back, for longer next time. I felt the same after my first short term mission trip. And I, too, wanted to go to Mongolia with her. A dream?
One day I quickly figured what the financial picture might look like in going for 3-6 months. The cost is the same to go and come back regardless how long you stay there. US dollars go a long way in Mongolia. Maybe we could pull it off. But would it be God’s will?
God knows the future as He is already there for He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow (yes, it is a different way of looking at that passage). Did my play on words earlier about Emily returning from tomorrow have a deeper meaning? Will God be taking us to Mongolia “tomorrow”? Wherever He leads us we need to hold on tight into tomorrow, tomorrow’s tomorrow, and beyond for He has planned for all our tomorrows before the foundation of the world. And He is not the God of confusion.
Our duty now? To run with patience the race set before us. For the race may lead to Mongolia…perhaps tomorrow.
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