Does God truly know the future?
December 1 - 7, 2024 | Always Peachy Devotionals | The Future Week 1
Have you ever wanted to know the future?
Knowing the future has been the source of so many popular movie and book franchises, probably because many of us have often faced that question. What would you do if you knew your future? How would you live if you knew what your life would be in 10, 50, 100 years?
Well, obviously, time travel isn’t possible. Granted, if you count crossing the international date line as time travel, then sure. You can be a time traveler. But in the definition of pop culture, none of us can go back and fix a mistake we made. But is it impossible to know your future?
Some details will always elude us, but I think it’s absolutely possible to know our future. You can know for sure what your life will look like far in the future, and you can know it today.
How is it possible? Well, there’s this book, you see, and it was written by the One who created time itself. So time is irrelevant to Him. He is above time, beyond time, so none of us can constrain Him to the limits of time.
Okay, I’ll stop being cute. Yes, I’m talking about God, and of course I’m talking about the Bible. But I’m not exaggerating. If you want to know your future, you can find it in the pages of God’s Word. Because each and every one of us has a future, and the choice we make today will determine which future we get to experience.
Since we are starting a brand new year in a few weeks, I thought there was no better time to talk about the future. Most people are afraid of it because it’s so far outside of our control. But is the future really so out of reach? What would you say if you knew someone who could use the bad things in your life to create a beautiful future for you? What would you change in your life today if you truly believed that your future were bright?
In this last month of 2024, we’re going to talk about the future and how we can know what to expect about what’s coming. But we’re going to start at the beginning this week, because we can’t talk about the future until we get one thing straight: Who knows the future?
Lots of people say they know the future. Influencers and religious experts and political pundits all claim foresight based on experience and scholarly pursuits, but do they really know for sure what is going to happen? Or are they merely making an educated guess?
Our futures are too important to risk on an educated guess. So let’s tune our hearts and listen with our souls to the words of the only one who knows the future—because He’s already seen it!
Monday - God is bigger than time (Psalm 90:4)
Tuesday - God created time when He created the universe (Genesis 1:1)
Wednesday - God knows the future because He’s seen it (Jeremiah 29:11)
Thursday - God tells us the future so we can choose wisely (Isaiah 42:8-9)
Friday - God wants a future with us (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)
It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day grind here in our daily lives. We live with a certain rhythm, and it can seem like this is all there is, that any future we have is limited to this existence as we know it now.
But, my friends, that’s not our future. If you know Jesus, you have a better future waiting for you than you can ever imagine. God has done so much to tell us what to expect. His Word is loaded with prophecy, most that has already come to pass and some that hasn’t come true yet. And He can do that because time means something different to God than it does to us.
So for our memory verse this week, I couldn’t help but be drawn to Isaiah 46:10.
Can you hear the power resonating between those words? Read it again. Let it sink in. What a statement!
This verse is such an extraordinary reminder of God’s Sovereignty—His right and authority to do whatever He wants with what He made. Not only does He have the power to do whatever He wants, He also has the qualifications to do whatever He wants.
What an awesome God! I can’t wait to study more about the glorious future He has in store for those who love Him, and I hope you’re excited too.
Blessings, my friends.
Amy
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