There Is Hope For Your Future

There Is Hope For Your Future

THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

No matter what the prognosticators claim, no one can accurately predict all that is going to happen in the future. Our best forecasts are just educated guesses. Change is not only increasing in speed and intensity, but also in unpredictability.

The Bible suggests three timeless principles for facing an uncertain future:

Set goals according to God’s direction. The Bible says, “We may make our plans, but God has the last word.” In other words, planning without praying is presumption. Start by praying, “God, what do you want me to do to fulfil Your purpose for my life?”

Live one day at a time – While we can plan for tomorrow, you can’t live it until it arrives. Most people spend so much time regretting the past and worrying about the future, that they have no time to enjoy today! Decide to make the most of each moment today. Jesus said, “Don’t be anxious about tomorrow – God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time.”

Don’t procrastinate – Do it now! Don’t postpone to tomorrow what you must do today, for you don’t know what tomorow may bring. Procrastinating is a subtle trap. It wastes today by postponing things until tomorrow. You promise yourself that you’ll do it “one of these days.” But “one of these days” is usually “none of these days.” Start working on what you have planned to do, now!

Prayer: Ask the Lord to reveal to you what He wants you to accomplish today and give you wisdom and strength to do them.

Scriptural Reading: Jeremiah 29:4-14

4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.

8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.

10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your…

There Is Hope For Your Future