Worship for Today: What do we know of the future?

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Ecclesiastes 10:14,

 

"No one knows what is coming— who can tell him what will happen after him?"

 

There is just a lot we don't know. We don't know what tomorrow may bring. Next week, next month or next year either. The future is hidden from us and we just cannot see into it. How will our children do after we leave this life? Our grandchildren? What will happen to the estates we may have built, the collections of things we have given ourselves to, our valuables and bank accounts? We can specify what we want done with them in a last will and testament, but what will our heirs do with them?

 

What will happen to our way of life? Our country? The freedoms and opportunities previous generations have so selflessly sacrificed to provide us? This is a question that seems to be garnering more attention today than ever given the political realities we live in today. We just do not know what is coming. Here is something that can bring a degree of anxiety and concern and points to another aspect of uncertainty or even futility in this life "under the sun".

 

But, is this all there is to the matter? Do we not know anything about tomorrow? If we enlarge our perspective from only that which is under the sun to include the things of God, the hope we have in our inheritance stored up for us in heaven and the Scriptures the Lord has provided us, yes, there are plenty of things we can know about tomorrow, we can know about many things that will happen after we are gone.

 

God's loving embrace will be in place. His love for mankind and his desire that we turn to him in faith will be in place after we are gone. God's mercy and forgiving kindness will be here after we are gone. His good intentions for those who embrace him in faith will be here after we are gone. God' promise to us of our inheritance in the resurrection will stand, long after we are gone from this life. On the flip side, God's assurance of judgment for all sin looms in the future as a certainty. We know of the return of Jesus Christ to earth and the resurrection he will bring about in God's timing. There is plenty we know of that is coming, even after we leave this life.

 

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!

Trevor Fisk
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