I recently listened to a preacher speaking about the futility of worry. It was a great message with many excellent points, but one in particular stuck out to me. He said humans worry because we want to know what’s coming. But God, in His perfect Will, designed us with limited knowledge. It’s a GOOD thing we don’t know what’s coming. The preacher said, “…Knowing the reasons why God does anything and knowing the future is beyond us. But it’s not only beyond us, it’s not good for us. You wouldn’t want to know the future. You think you would, but you wouldn’t. If you knew the future, it would rob you of present joy. If you knew the future was better, that would rob you of current joy because you would be anticipating something better. If you knew the future was worse, that would rob you of present joy because you would live in fear.”
God knows, and that is enough. All we need to know is that God does all things for the good of those who love Him. God didn’t give Job a reason for his suffering; he pointed Job toward God’s sovereignty and Job found peace and rest in submitting to His Will. Job said, “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted..Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.” (Job 42:2-3).
We don’t know why this pandemic has broken across the world, we don’t know why the governments have responded as they have, we don’t know when it will end, and we don’t know how life will be different going forward. But I know we don’t need to worry. It won’t help change the situation, it won’t help us feel better, and it will only communicate a distrust in the Lord. All we have is this moment, and we must redeem the time for God’s glory. “But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15). We will look for opportunities to declare God’s goodness in providing salvation to all who come to Him, and we will look forward with eager anticipation to His blessed return. “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23).
For He who promised is faithful!
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