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The future is an interesting concept.
Many try to find the future for their lives. They look to fortune tellers, astrology – the unwise advice of the wise ones of the world. God says in his word that he will destroy the wisdom of the non-believer. But as for the believer and their wisdom (which is accepted by God), what makes his or her wisdom different than a non-believer? Simply this. Although no one knows what the future holds, the believer knows who holds the future.
It is normal to think about the future and hope it gets better, but, it is wiser to trust the future to someone who knows what the future will be, and that is God. And those of us who do, have two things going for them.
1) Whatever your future holds it is for your own good. (All things work for the good for those who love the Lord).
2). Whatever your future is, its number one purpose is to bring glory to God.
Plan as you will, dream if you dare, but if your plans and dreams are not according to God’s will, the only thing you have left is a future that lacks fulfilment, and is full of uncertainty.
There were two men who were granted one wish each for his future. One asked for eternal life and received hell. The other asked for truth and received heaven. The moral of the story is – eternal life without truth is a place called hell; eternal life with truth is a place called heaven.
The secret lies in the reality of WHO the truth is. Jesus said; “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father but through me.”
Amen.