{"id":4377,"date":"2025-01-29T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:34:19","slug":"the-lord-of-every-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/the-lord-of-every-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of Every Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast,\u00a0<\/em>click here<\/a>

Here\u2019s a pop music pop quiz:

What\u2019s the most frequently recorded song of all time, now estimated to have been covered by at least 2,200 different artists?

Hint:\u00a0<\/em>It also happens to be a song that was literally dreamed up by its composer.

In 1965, Paul McCartney awoke one morning with a tune stuck in his head. He presumed he must have heard it somewhere, but for the life of him, he couldn\u2019t identify it.\u00a0He even made up silly lyrics as a way of singing it to other people, so they could help him nail it down:

Scrambled eggs, oh baby how I love your legs. <\/em>\u201cDo you know this?\u00a0It\u2019s a good little tune, but I couldn\u2019t have written it, because I dreamt it.\u201d \u00a0

But everyone he consulted was clueless.

After a couple of weeks, McCartney began to believe the song might actually belong to him. \u201cLike a prospector I finally staked my claim.\u00a0I stuck a little sign on it and said, \u2018OK, it\u2019s mine!\u2019\u201d

As cultural historian Rick Beyer reports, McCartney conjured up some lyrics and brought the song to the studio.\u00a0But the other Beatles didn\u2019t know what to do with it.\u00a0Ringo tried adding drums, and John Lennon pondered an organ background.\u00a0But it didn\u2019t really sound much like a Beatles song. Up to this point the Fab Four had never released a solo number.

That\u2019s when legendary producer George Martin made a decision that changed music history.\u00a0He brought in a string quartet.

The result was Yesterday, <\/em>a rock song that wasn\u2019t really a rock song, lasts barely two minutes, and by a number of groups has been voted Greatest Song of All Time.\u00a0

McCartney gently grieves for a time in the past when life was good and love was in full bloom:\u00a0

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.<\/em>
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly I’m not half the man I used to be.
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go, I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.<\/em>

Here\u2019s the original McCartney recording: Yesterday (Remastered 2009)<\/a>

Yesterday may be a great refuge for romantic poets, songwriters, and people who for one reason or another have concluded that high school was about as good as life gets.\u00a0

But it\u2019s a miserable dwelling place for anyone charged with helping lead a family, a company, or a transforming movement into the future.

It\u2019s estimated that at least 80% of America\u2019s congregations have experienced frustration and anger over the past few decades because so many members have yearned for something that can never happen again:\u00a0Why can\u2019t Eisenhower still be president?\u00a0That\u2019s when it was easier being the Church.\u00a0<\/em>

But that was yesterday.\u00a0And yesterday is gone.\u00a0

Our prior history may have featured wonderful things.\u00a0But as the old saying goes, \u201cWhen you visit the altars of the past, bring back the fire and not the ashes.\u201d

God, meanwhile, is in the business of doing something new:

\u201cForget about what\u2019s happened; don\u2019t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I\u2019m about to do something brand-new. It\u2019s bursting out! Don\u2019t you see it? There it is! I\u2019m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands\u201d (Isaiah 43:19, The Message<\/em>).

Radical faith isn\u2019t a vote for yesterday.

Instead, it\u2019s putting ourselves in the hands of the God who is the Lord of every tomorrow.
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