“God is already there—in your future.”

A thought by Charles R. Swindall, from his book, What if…God Has Other Plans?: Finding Hope When Life Throws You the Unexpected (p. 43). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

He is, He really is!

Charles says, “Allow me to share with you an all-important answer from the end of the Book. God is already there—in your future. Tomorrow morning? Next week? When you graduate from school? In the middle of your career? In your later years? When you’re nearing the end? He’s already there. He goes before you, and He knows what lies ahead of you.”

Charles goes on, “I adore my wife. I have for more than sixty years. I want to have her the rest of my life. Yet I may not. Truth be told, she may not have me. Only God knows. Does that mean we’ve served a false God all these years? No, it means that God is God, and He determines the parameters of how many days we have on this earth. If the Lord is paramount in my mind, my life doesn’t revolve around my wife, nor hers around me. That’s a healthy—biblical—way to live. So, I’ve trained myself not to hold things too tightly. I’m doing that better now than I did early in our marriage. In my younger years, I wrote her all those poems and told her we’d be together forever, but God has not promised me that.

“We have our children, and there is a temptation to think we’ll have them forever too. We don’t know that. Why on earth would God not offer us that assurance? Ask Job. He lost ten. The Word helps our minds remain focused on the right things. Keep these truths in your head and your heart. Remind yourself of them from time to time, since we don’t have a clue what tomorrow will bring.”

James 4:13-16 says, “Look here, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.’ How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, ‘If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.’ Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.”

Charles then says, “These are wise words worth remembering. Why not memorize them? They will help stabilize you for whatever your tomorrows include.”

And that is what we need to realize, especially in this time we are living through, isn’t it?

Yes, yes!

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