Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day after today, but the funny thing is that when today is over, the day that comes is called today. It's as if "tomorrow" never comes.

Sometimes people like to say, “Tomorrow will be better," and while this sentiment certainly captures hope for the hearer about the future, the truth is that tomorrow is quite an illusive thing. Sometimes we build up a hope in something like “tomorrow” and when it arrives and it is nothing at all like we desired or expected.

New Ager, Neale Donald Walsch considers himself a modern day spiritual messenger, a prophet who speaks for "God,"and he is working hard to prepare humanity for his idea of a great "tomorrow" for all of humanity. He is doing so by redefining "God" and getting people to put their trust in him as God's messenger and in the team he is building that he calls "Humanity's Team."

Neal has authored several books and websites. One of his books, 'Tomorrow's God,' is all about the distinct differences between “Yesterday’s God” and “Tomorrow’s God.” Neale Walsh even writes about his conversations with this "God." His conversations are not secret either. On June 14, 2004, CNN reporter Todd Leopoldtold the world that Walsch believes he hears direct from God. Walsch "channels." This means that he enters into an altered state of consciousness and then the spirits speak to him while he is in his mystic trance..

Channeling like this is really nothing “New.” It's just always been considered occult, something that obscures the truth of GOd, something tiblical God has warned his people not to practice. Walsch is one of many who channel, one of many voices on a mission to facilitate something called change. He is on a mission to the world, educating people with his tapes, talks, workshops, books, website, and numerous campaigns and satellite television appearances, telling the world that the information he disseminates is from God.

According to Walsch the God of Yesterday, “is a bearded, demanding father figure on a throne.” Walsch says that he is nothing at all like Tomorrow’s God. Tomorrow's God, says Walsch, “says that every church is his church, and every faith is her faith, and every soul is God's soul, because it shares the same soul with God!" Tomorrows God, is such a new concept he even calls his Conversations with God foundation, The "Re-Creation Foundation," apparently the old God of yesterday didn't get it right.

His messages from God also spurred him on to create another "non-profit, non-denominational foundation" that he calls Humanity's Team. He calls it a spiritual movement.... whose purpose is "to communicate and implement the belief that we are all one, one with God and one with life, a shared global state of being, so that the behavior of humanity may shift to reflect this understanding. " This is intended to create the possibility for a new spirituality to emerge on the earth. After all, Neale says that the single, most important message he has that comes from his Conversations with God, is that "We are all One."

Furthermore, Walsch claims that "the New Spirituality is not a new religion." HE says that it is rather, "an expansion of all our present theologies; an updating of them; a refreshing of them, rendering all of our current sacred teachings even more relevant to our present day and time, their webpage continues, "Key to the New Spirituality is a belief that God is not separate from anyone or anything — and neither are we." They call it NEw Spirituality, and yet is nothing new...it's pantheism.

A lot of people, like Neale, like to throw around this idea of "new" and of "change," and this in a world where things sprout and grow, often grow old, fast. Nothing stays the same, and not for long. The grass withers, the flower fades. The lilies of the field bloom and show their splendor, then they fade away. Change is easy to come by, what we need is stability, something we can believe in, trust and depend on today and forever. God's Word is the only I know, that remains strong and secure, even in an ever changing world.

Walsch is one of many who want to make the world a better place, who want to make a kinder, gentler, more accepting world, and that is not a bad thing to desire. He obviously acknowledges there are problems in the world that need to be fixed, but Walsch prefers to put his hope and trust in man, and in the God he calls, Tomorrow's God.

Yet it is still called today, and the God of Today is the one who says to those with ears to hear, "today if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts"(Hebrews 3:15)God, the Father of the heavenly lights, does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:17) He is the way the Truth, and the life, (John 14:6) and unlike Tomorrow's God, He is the same... Yesterday, Today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

"Tomorrow" is also the title of a song, made famous by the Broadway musical Annie.

The Broadway musical is actually based on the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” by Harold Gray. The comic strip debuted in 1924 and ran for 74 years. It is about a young, unwanted, outcast orphan, girl. She and a stray dog she loves have many adventures of peril in a cold, harsh world always wondering if they will end up safely adopted by a wealthy man who had no children of his own named Daddy Warbucks or not. In the end, Annie is adopted and Sandy gets to stay with her too.

In the musical, Annie sings the near unforgettable song, "Tomorrow," to her kindred spirit dog she names Sandy. In song she tells Sandy that they can bet their bottom dollar "on tomorrow." The lyrics are, “The sun will come out, tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow they’ll be sun….The sun’ll come out tomorrow, so ya got to hang on till tomorrow… Come what may… tomorrow…. tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow, you’re only a day away….”