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The road is long, and so is the future. Its actual length can vary from a second, to a multi-millennium, and to when God says ‘Last call,’ depending on who and what you are; be it a living being or earth’s ability to sustain life in general.
The future belongs to God. It may seem that we can control what will happen by the plans we make. If someone says, “I will go to the beach tomorrow,” and tomorrow they’re at the beach, one might say that person controlled the future. But the same person’s plans could be altered by an unforeseen event that prevents going to the beach as planned. The same person cannot prevent such things from happening that would interfere with the plans made. In that respect, only God has a handle on what happens next. People, like doctors, those in the military, those with families to look after, and those awaiting a verdict, to name a few, are aware of this. “It’s in God’s hands” is an ongoing refrain. James 4:13-15 says, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’”
As far as the future goes, we can only have faith that things will turn out good for us and our loved ones. But for those of us who love God, faith in Him is all the faith we need. And it should not be underestimated, since, as Jesus says in Matthew 17:20, if you have faith even as little as a grain of mustard seed you can move mountains. But as faith exists on a prism, on one end are its seeds; at the other end are seeds of doubt that can hamper our faith to the extent they are in us. At one end were Jesus’ first disciples; at the other end was Doubting Thomas who, after being told by the disciples after the Resurrection that Jesus was among them in John 20:25 when Thomas was away, responded in the same Verse that he had to see him to believe it.
As far as the future goes, faith stands as a confirmation of God’s control of the future. Whatever plans He makes are plans that are realized. There is a limit to our understanding of God’s Thoughts and His Ways, as Isaiah 55:8 tells us. His Ways are mysterious to us, but if we love Him, our faith in him is all we need.
And what of His Plans? God has Plans for everyone, before we enter our mother’s womb. He mase it clear He knew everyone before we entered our mother’s womb, when He spoke to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5. If God knows Jeremiah, He knows us all. If God has plans for Jeremiah in Jeremiah 29:11 for a future and a hope, he has similar plans for all of us. Those plans bear fruit when we love Him, as it says in Romans 8:28.
There is nothing wrong with planning for the future. But we should be mindful that the future is in God’s Hands, and our faith and love in Him can make that future agreeable to us.
The future belongs to God. It may seem that we can control what will happen by the plans we make. If someone says, “I will go to the beach tomorrow,” and tomorrow they’re at the beach, one might say that person controlled the future. But the same person’s plans could be altered by an unforeseen event that prevents going to the beach as planned. The same person cannot prevent such things from happening that would interfere with the plans made. In that respect, only God has a handle on what happens next. People, like doctors, those in the military, those with families to look after, and those awaiting a verdict, to name a few, are aware of this. “It’s in God’s hands” is an ongoing refrain. James 4:13-15 says, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’”
As far as the future goes, we can only have faith that things will turn out good for us and our loved ones. But for those of us who love God, faith in Him is all the faith we need. And it should not be underestimated, since, as Jesus says in Matthew 17:20, if you have faith even as little as a grain of mustard seed you can move mountains. But as faith exists on a prism, on one end are its seeds; at the other end are seeds of doubt that can hamper our faith to the extent they are in us. At one end were Jesus’ first disciples; at the other end was Doubting Thomas who, after being told by the disciples after the Resurrection that Jesus was among them in John 20:25 when Thomas was away, responded in the same Verse that he had to see him to believe it.
As far as the future goes, faith stands as a confirmation of God’s control of the future. Whatever plans He makes are plans that are realized. There is a limit to our understanding of God’s Thoughts and His Ways, as Isaiah 55:8 tells us. His Ways are mysterious to us, but if we love Him, our faith in him is all we need.
And what of His Plans? God has Plans for everyone, before we enter our mother’s womb. He mase it clear He knew everyone before we entered our mother’s womb, when He spoke to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5. If God knows Jeremiah, He knows us all. If God has plans for Jeremiah in Jeremiah 29:11 for a future and a hope, he has similar plans for all of us. Those plans bear fruit when we love Him, as it says in Romans 8:28.
There is nothing wrong with planning for the future. But we should be mindful that the future is in God’s Hands, and our faith and love in Him can make that future agreeable to us.
