Knowing the Future

 Happy Sunday!

"When the Holy Spirit, who is TRUTH, comes, he shall guide you into all TRUTH, for he will not be presenting his own ideas, but will be passing on to you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future."(John 16:13, Living Bible).

So many people want to know the future.  Do you understand God has given you His Spirit that knows everything?  Not a fortune cookie, not a psychic, and not a horoscope but the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now gives life to our mortal bodies.(Romans 8:11).  Back in the Old Testament, Amos 3:7 says, "When the Lord God decides to do something, he will first tell his servants, the prophets."(Easy-to-Read Version).  Hebrews 1:1-3 goes even further and says, "Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end. This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God’s nature. He holds everything together by what he says—powerful Words!"(Message).

John 1:1 ties this all together, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."(KJV).  Don't miss this!  If you want to know the future get to know the Word.  The more Word you have the more revelation you will have.  Ok, I can hear you now.  "Sounds too simple", you may say.  It is simple.  God made it that way so that no one will have an excuse for not getting it.  Proverbs 14:6 says, "A scoffer seeks Wisdom in vain [for his very attitude blinds and deafens him to it], but knowledge is EASY to him who [being teachable] understands."(Amplified).  The Living Bible says it this way, "A mocker never finds the wisdom he claims he is looking for, yet it comes easily to the man with common sense". 

2 Peter 3:9 says, "The Lord is not being slow in doing what he promised—the way some people understand slowness. But God is being patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be lost. He wants everyone to change their ways and stop sinning."(Easy-to- Read Version).  Sometimes it may appear that the Word is not working, and that the future is not predictable.  But this scripture reminds us that God in merciful, and wants us to do right.  Galatians 6:7 shows the other side of the coin, "Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life."(Message).

Love and prayers, Cynthia