The future
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.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:04 am
The greatest of these is love.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Thanks for a very appropriate message for this Autumn Tuesday morning!
October 16th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Most people are so caught up trying to change the past they can’t think about the future.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I recently read a story about a “fortune teller” who sued a doctor claiming the CAT scan destroyed her ability to tell the future. You would think if she were the real thing, she would have seen this coming. Anyway, she won the case and was awarded over $950,000! Now that there has been a court precedent established, being in the “futures” business could be rather lucrative.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Beautiful message…good for me today.
Love to all.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:01 am
No revealing of the future to me please. I love surprises.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Sorry Brady
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