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What’s Ahead?

If we consider what people thought years ago about life in the future, we realize how hard it is to know what’s ahead. For instance, what if everyone had believed the patent office worker who, in 1899, said, “Everything that can be invented has been invented”? Or what if folks in the nineteenth century had believed this memo from Western Union: “The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”?

Predictions about the future are usually bad guesses. When I was a kid, I read science magazines that said by the end of the twentieth century we would all be flying around in air-cars and living in domed houses.

One source for what’s ahead, however, is never wrong. It’s God’s Word! The Bible has reassuring words for those who “believe that Jesus died and rose again” (1 Thessalonians 4:14). The apostle Paul gave us the comforting words that “the Lord Himself will descent from heaven with a shout” (v. 16). Christ will return to gather together all those, both living and dead, who have placed their faith in Him. “And thus we shall always be with the Lord,” wrote Paul (v. 17). No matter what’s ahead for us, we may with certainty “comfort one another with these words” (v. 18).

We can trust our all-knowing God for the unknown future.

Description
What’s Ahead?

If we consider what people thought years ago about life in the future, we realize how hard it is to know what’s ahead. For instance, what if everyone had believed the patent office worker who, in 1899, said, “Everything that can be invented has been invented”? Or what if folks in the nineteenth century had believed this memo from Western Union: “The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”?

Predictions about the future are usually bad guesses. When I was a kid, I read science magazines that said by the end of the twentieth century we would all be flying around in air-cars and living in domed houses.

One source for what’s ahead, however, is never wrong. It’s God’s Word! The Bible has reassuring words for those who “believe that Jesus died and rose again” (1 Thessalonians 4:14). The apostle Paul gave us the comforting words that “the Lord Himself will descent from heaven with a shout” (v. 16). Christ will return to gather together all those, both living and dead, who have placed their faith in Him. “And thus we shall always be with the Lord,” wrote Paul (v. 17). No matter what’s ahead for us, we may with certainty “comfort one another with these words” (v. 18).

We can trust our all-knowing God for the unknown future.