Do you know what your future is going to be like? In part I do but not in whole. Do you wish you knew what your future would be like? There are times when I would like to know. Why do you want to know what is in your future? Is it because if you did you might change a decision you might make? Do you want to be totally in control of your future? I do not.
Why, you may ask, do I not want to be totally in control of my future? I figure if I could control my future, I would not do a very good job of it. I would choose the easy way. Besides I believe that there is Someone who will do a far better job because He knows all things and He controls all things. You may have guessed by now that the “Someone” is My Heavenly Father the God Almighty.
Psalms 139:16 says, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” (ESV)
Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (ESV)
The Psalms and the Ephesians passage make it clear that God has planned all of our days and that nothing happens to us that is outside of His plan. He created us for a reason. He prepared a path for us to walk down. Ecclesiastes 7:14 tells us that God’s plan included times of prosperity and the days of adversity. It also tells me that in creating both prosperity and adversity that in part it is so we do not know the future. “In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.” (ESV)
Because I do not know my future, I must trust God for my future. I cannot alter the future nor can I avoid it. The future which God has for me is going to happen.
He is the All-knowing God. He is the One who holds my future in His hands. It is because of this that I can endure and have hope in all things. It is because of Him that my life is worth living no matter what my circumstances are. If I am in a good place or if I am in the midst of trials, I have hope just because He lives and He holds my future. I have no future hope outside of the hope I have in God.
So, join me in placing our futures in the hands of the only One who can make all things right. Have hope for yourself and give hope to others. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross satisfied the penalty for my sins and yours as well. It satisfied all my sins from the past, in the present and in the future and yours too. My penalty and yours was satisfied on the cross by the death of Jesus who became sin for me and you. Because of that we ought to believe in Jesus. I hope that you join me in choosing Jesus.
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