Trusting God for the Future

Ever wished you could tell the future? Many have tried. Tealeaves, palms, stars, numerals, ghosts from the ‘other side’ – it’s all been used to try to tell the future.

Do you remember ‘Paul’ the octopus with the perfect score in picking World Cup winners? One mistake, and he’d get turned into calamari.

But maybe knowing the future is not such a great idea. It didn’t do much good for Macbeth’ Remember the witches at the beginning? It might have done Ebenezer Scrooge some good in A Christmas Carol, although the possible future doesn’t turn out to be his actual future. Then, what about knowing the future but not being able to change it - or worse - changing it for your own ends? I’m selfish enough in the past and present – let alone deciding the future.

Knowing the future is for the faint-hearted who don’t really want to trust God. We don’t need to consult cards, calamari or Casper’s cousins. God wants you to trust Him with your future. It’s out of your hands anyway. You can’t predict it, and if you could, you’d probably mess it up.

Far better to leave it in the hands of a sovereign God, who is never ‘off the job’, is good, just and powerful. He’s also kind and sensitive. He really listens to people when they call to Him.

He is across every possible future, even the one you are asking for.—Rev. Greg Webster