It’s easy to think that if we knew what was going to happen next in our lives, we’d have fewer worries. Oftentimes, we blame our concerns and sleepless nights on uncertainty, wishing that we could just see into the future and find calm in understanding.
But would that really work? Or would knowledge of the future simply add to our burdens?
In a recent article for CT, Jen Wilkin encourages us to consider times in Scripture when God revealed the future to his people. In the case of Moses at the burning bush, for example, God tells him to go to Egypt and deliver the Israelites.
“The result?” Wilkin writes. “Anxiety in the extreme. An unwillingness to follow. A crisis of identity. Clear words from the Lord yielded neither confidence nor peace for Moses.”
Maybe knowing the future isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Instead, God guides us to find peace not in certainty about what is next, but in the fact that he will be with us in all of it. The fact that he knows and that he will stay alongside us? That is the great comfort when we fear the future.
