20/20

The old saying that hindsight is 20/20 is so true.  How easy it is to look back at something you may not have understood at the time it was happening and see the meaning later down the road.  Or haven't you been able to realize why something happened the way that it happened once it was all over?  You may not have understood why you were going through the circumstances you were faced with at the time, but they may become very clear later on.  And haven't you said, "If I had known then what I know now, I would have done that differently, or I would have said this instead of that, or I wouldn't have gone there at all."

While it's true that our hindsight can become much more clear later down the road, it's also true that our foresight can have clarity as well.  No, I'm not necessarily saying that you can develop a clear picture of what your future will be.  Nor am I saying that you can develop the gift of prophesy like Isaiah.  But I am saying that with God at the center of your life, you can have the peace of knowing that your future is secure.  You can have the foresight to know that all things will be worked together for good.

No, you may not know every detail.  You may not know where your next job will come from or how many grandchildren you are going to have.  You may not can know what hardships you may face in the coming years or what successes you may achieve.  But you can know that your needs will be met, your salvation is secured, and your life will be filled with blessings untold.  

The old hymn, " I Know Who Holds Tomorrow" sums it up nicely: 

I don't know about tomorrow;
I just live from day to day.
I don't borrow from its sunshine
For its skies may turn to grey.
I don't worry o'er the future,
For I know what Jesus said.
And today I'll walk beside Him,
For He knows what is ahead.
Many things about tomorrow
I don't seem to understand
But I know who holds tomorrow
And I know who holds my hand.

I don't know about tomorrow;
It may bring me poverty.
But the one who feeds the sparrow,
Is the one who stands by me.
And the path that is my portion
May be through the flame or flood;
But His presence goes before me
And I'm covered with His blood.
Many things about tomorrow
I don't seem to understand
But I know who holds tomorrow
And I know who holds my hand...

Jeremiah tells us that God knows the plans He has for us.  He knows everything about us.  Past, present and future.  He knows how every second of our every day will be played out before we ever wake up.  He knows how many grandchildren we're going to have.  He knows the kinds of hardships and successes we'll encounter.  He has the plans for our future laid out already.  He knows tomorrow.  And our foresight into those tomorrows can be 20/20 if only we'll give them to Him.

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."  ~ Jeremiah 29:11

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?  ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."  ~ Matthew 6:25-34


"I Know Who Holds Tomorrow" - Alison Krauss and The Cox Family
http://youtu.be/PWKZVbG9egQ