What will the future bring?

WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE

I don't know about you, but I sometimes get concerned about the future. I
don't know if I actually worry about it, but sometimes it is close to that.
I am concerned about the state of our world; I am concerned about the
financial condition of our country; I am concerned about what the government
will or won't do to the stability of our country; I am concerned about what
kind of world our children and grandchildren will have to live in; I am
concerned with how things will turn out in our lives as we grow older.

Again, I am concerned, but don't worry about it. Every day, just as perhaps
you do, I strive to turn my future over to God. Sometimes I successful,
sometimes I'm not.

I recently read a quote from Corrie Ten Boom that said, "Never be afraid to
trust the future you don't know, to a God you do know". I don't know about
you, but from time to time I need to be reminded of that fact! Don't most of
the issues in our lives have a direct relationship to our reliance upon God
or our relationship to him? Who is it we turn to in times of trouble, is it
our friends and family, our co-workers, or do we first think of God. Your
answer to that question may explain your success or failure in some of your
struggles.

I am endeavoring every day to rely more upon God regarding my future.
Shouldn't we really be able to trust the future to our God we know? In the
scripture we read: "God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I
forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5) So, if we know this promise and know the one
who made the promise, how can we not trust our future to his hands? David
said of God in Psalm 31:15, "My future is in Your hands".

We have read the words, we know the promise; we know the one who made the
promise, now it is time for us to live like we believe the promise. Stop
worrying about that which you can't change or can't direct yourself and turn
it over to God.

Russ Lawson