THINK TOGETHER.
Would you like to be able to tell the future? Why or why not?
READ TOGETHER
Proverbs 27:1. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Even though we all know that we can’t time travel or predict the future, many people still try to live like they can. Many people want to control their future, and so they boast about tomorrow.
In Proverbs, there is the foolish sluggard who never makes any plans and never wants to do anything productive. But just as foolish is the person who thinks that they can control their future. This kind of fool talks about tomorrow as if it is a certainty. But it is very important for all of us to remember that nothing is certain. We never know what will happen in the NEAR future – next year, next week, tomorrow, an hour from now.
But the good news is that we DO know what is going to happen in the FAR future. Jesus IS coming back some day. We can count on that! If we have trusted him as our savior, we know that he IS going to take us to Heaven. We also know that he IS going to be with us in this life no matter what, and that he IS making us more and more like himself. Our future is good because our God is good.
The thing every person must learn to do as they grow up is to trust in the certainty of our FAR future with Jesus so that we don’t try to control our NEAR future.
The Apostle James has good advice for us in his New Testament letter. He says that instead of saying, Tomorrow I am going to go do this and that, we should say, Tomorrow, IF the Lord allows it, I will go do this and that.
If the Lord allows.
That means we make plans, but we trust whatever Jesus allows. Can you do that?
Because of Jesus our future is good.
With Jesus we can let Jesus control our future instead of us.
DO SOMETHING TOGETHER
Draw pictures of Heaven together. What do you imagine it will be like to live with Jesus? (Remember that we will live on new Earth with God, not up in clouds)
PRAY TOGETHER
Jesus, I give control to you. Even when I make plans, help me to trust whatever you allow. Amen.
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