The future
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Would you like to know your future?
If you knew it, would you be tempted to change it?
I know I would. Which probably means that (and this is silly since it can’t happen) that I shouldn’t know the future for the future belongs to Someone who is big enough to handle it. I can barely manage my present, let alone my future!
The desire to manage what lies outside my reach causes nothing but grief. And even if it were in my reach (by use of fortune tellers, divination and the like) I would still be called to give that future to God. That would be a step of faith. Knowing that he has something good planned for his creation, and for me, is a sign of hope. Taking advantage of the present, living as I have received from God, is an expression of love.
Faith, hope and love.
If you knew it, would you be tempted to change it?
I know I would. Which probably means that (and this is silly since it can’t happen) that I shouldn’t know the future for the future belongs to Someone who is big enough to handle it. I can barely manage my present, let alone my future!
The desire to manage what lies outside my reach causes nothing but grief. And even if it were in my reach (by use of fortune tellers, divination and the like) I would still be called to give that future to God. That would be a step of faith. Knowing that he has something good planned for his creation, and for me, is a sign of hope. Taking advantage of the present, living as I have received from God, is an expression of love.
Faith, hope and love.
