Devotion: The Future

April 11, 2012

The word for today is FUTURE. I look outside today, though it is a little chilly the sun is out and shining. We could even wear our sunglasses. I was super surprised this morning though to see the sun out, mainly because I remember hearing on the news that it was supposed to rain all the way until Friday. So it got me thinking that no matter what equations we use, what sciences we use, patterns we use, we just never really know what’s going to happen each and every day. The weather person may predict the weather for the entire week, but we never really know what’s going to happen until that day comes. It may be sunny right now, but we all know that it can change any moment. WE JUST DON’T KNOW!

Same goes for our lives, WE JUST DON’T KNOW! I can sit here and lay out a plan I have for my future, all my goals and desires. I can even write down exact dates that I want things to happen, but the truth is I’m not even sure it’s going to happen at all. We can go to a psychic and get our future read, or call a number and they’ll tell us what our love lives will be like, or get a bunch of fortune cookies and find out what the cookie says about my future, but the truth is no matter what someone says they don’t know either.

I do know someone who does know and that’s God! He knows our plans, He knows where we’re going and He’s going to take us there. Last Friday I had the youth write their plans, goals, etc., and toss it in a basket representing us giving our hearts, our goals, and our plans to God. That’s what we have to do on a daily basis. I don’t know what’s going to happen today, tomorrow, a month from now, even 10 seconds from now, but what I do know is that if I give my every second and every minute of every day to God He’s not going to let us down. He’s going to take us to places we’ve never dreamt of going and have us doing things we didn’t write down on that list.

“I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

Live everyday giving everything to Christ. You won’t regret it!