We Can Predict Our Future

We Can Predict Our Future “Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? Ecclesiastes 8:7 What does the future hold for us? This is a question that we all ask ourselves throughout our lives. We begin making plans and dreaming from the time we are youngsters and continue through our old age, trying to figure out what lies ahead of us. Predicting the future is a difficult thing to do. And yet we often wonder, what does the future hold for me? What does God have in mind for my life? Who will I marry? What will happen to me when I grow old? How can I make it through the pain or sorrow I’m experiencing right now? Will things every get better? When we don’t know what the future holds we often think the worse will happen which causes fear, doubt and anxiety to creep into our minds and rob us of our peace. Predicting the future is so uncertain that the majority of time we get it wrong, as things do not turn out the way we want them to. Some of the most notable predictions that went awry was: “The radio has no future and x-rays are clearly a hoax,”-Royal Society President Lord Kelvin, 1897. “You ought to go back to driving a truck.” Concert manager firing Elvis Presley in 1954. “The atom bomb will never go off-and I speak as an expert in explosives.” U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945. As it is obvious no one knows what the future holds for us, except God, and any plans that we make are so uncertain that they can change in an instant. However God has known the plan He has for each of us even before we were formed in our mother’s womb, as He knows all about us and what He has destined for our life. The only thing that we can be certain of is that when we turn our life over to God, we are able to predict with certainty that we can spend all eternity with Him in Heaven. My Daily Devotional Volume III July 16 Robert William Brock, Jr.