Future Cast

Had my first closed door yesterday. It looked really good too, especially since it was in Arizona. Arizona looks real good when its rainy and 41 degrees in Seattle!

But what I have discovered, closed doors are almost more important than open doors in the Joblessphere. That's because you can know where you are NOT supposed to go. But, it's disheartening too. As long as there are some attractive open doors, you can always imagine, "what if?" In fact the joke in our family is that we have so much imagination and vision that we have already created a whole new life, complete with home, school, visiting friends, vacation spots... everything, that you would think we were on Second Life, on the internet.

But imagination is good. Vision is good. It lives out Jeremiah 29:11 which says, "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."

As I wrote, life, it only makes sense when you look at it backwards. But we have to live it forward. Future. That is one second from now, one minute from now, one hour, one day, one week, one month, one year, one lifetime... all future, all unknown.

The concept we cannot understand is that God is timeless, eternal, has no beginning or end. His existence transcends time itself so he stands and sees all things as "now," so to speak. So He sees everything in one glance. But He's not telling. Why? Because we are to walk by faith not by sight.

Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." If it can be seen, it requires no faith. If it can be touched, it requires no faith. If it is within reach, it requires no faith. If it is in my possession, I need no faith. If it is in the present, I need no faith.

But if it cannot be seen, cannot be touched, has not yet been realized, is "not yet," but in the future, then it requires faith.

Faith. It is for the next blog.