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Hope for Your Future

Devotionals — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 07:03:55 +0000

“There is hope for your future,” says the Lord. Jeremiah31:17a (NLT)

There is hope for your future because…

…of who God is (not who we are.)
…of His great love for us.
…God keeps His promises.
…He does not change.
…of how He’s worked in the past, and how He’s at work today.
…how He sees us (not how we see ourselves.)
…nothing is impossible for Him.
…God sees us, hears us, and knows what we’re going through.
…He sees the big picture of our lives that we cannot see.
…God knows the plans He has for us.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord.
“They are plans for good and not for disaster,
to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah29:11 (NLT)

By Laura Rath
Used by Permission

Fix Your Eyes on the Future

Thoughts_About_God — Sat, 24 May 2025 07:03:37 +0000

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:18

In our Christian journey it is good and proper, at most times and in most circumstances, to be looking forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal. Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future must, after all, be the grand object of the eye of faith.

Looking into the future we see sin cast out, the body of sin and death destroyed. The soul will be made perfect, and fit to partake in the inheritance promised to God’s saints.

Looking further yet, the believer’s enlightened eye can see death’s river passed, the gloomy stream bridged, and the hills of light attained on which stands the celestial city. We perceive ourselves entering within the pearly gates, hailed as more than conquerors, crowned by the hand of Christ, embraced in the arms of Jesus, glorified with Him, and made to sit together with him, even as he has overcome and has sat down with the Father on his throne.

The thought of this future can relieve the darkness of the past and the gloom of the present. The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of Earth. Hush, hush, my doubts! Death is but a narrow stream, and you will soon have crossed it. Time, how short! Eternity, how long! Death, how brief! Immortality, how endless! The road is so, so short! I shall soon be there.

“When the world my heart is rending
With its heaviest storm of care,
My glad thoughts to heaven ascending,
Find a refuge from despair.
Faith’s bright vision shall sustain me
Till life’s pilgrimage is past;
Fears may vex and troubles pain me,
I shall reach my home at last.”

Question: How does looking forward to the future help us in the present?

Originally written by Charles H. Spurgeon.
Updated to modern English by Darren Hewer, 2011.
Used by Permission

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The Future

Thoughts_About_God — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:03:47 +0000

Jesus is our future. He has called us to follow Him with a heart of faith and a life of obedience. In good times, in troubled times, or in uncertain times, all our times are in His hands. Our future is as bright as the promises of God; as hopeful as the faithfulness of God; as secure as the character of God; as abounding as the grace of God; as abundant as the love of God. He wants us to occupy until He comes.

“Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to Him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.” Ephesians 3:20- 21 (NLT)

by Roy Lessin
used by permission

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