Prevailing Strategies: Follow The One who knows Tomorrow

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding (Proverbs 3:5)

One day, as I studied the Bible, some thoughts went through my mind. I pondered, “If the Lord really does know everything, that means He knows tomorrow.” Then again, I thought, “Since He knows the future, then He knows everything I’ll ever do, say, think, and everywhere I’ll ever go.” Now, all that while, I was meditating on the Scriptures and having this soliloquy.

The result was, I realized that the Lord could actually see in my tomorrow or in the future if I’m going to do or say something that’s not right. And since He already knows, He can fix things ahead for me. Then I said, “Lord, since you know my tomorrow, can you effect some corrections ahead before I ever get there?” Interestingly, He wasn’t quiet about it, and He didn’t reprimand me either for having all those thoughts. Rather, He said to me, “You’re right; I can do it if you want me to.” This reveals how truly kind and gracious He is. We can, and should, actually trust Him with our future.

Imagine that you have a child crawling on the floor, and you can see something dangerous in front of him, and you know the child is going to pick it up. Surely, you’re going to go ahead of the child to eliminate that danger. If you’d do that, how much more our heavenly Father! That’s one of the reasons you can trust God to lead you. If you trust Him with your future, He’ll direct your path. If you trust Him, He’ll go ahead of you and fix things. He can change anything for your good, for your advantage. Even if you’ve gone in the wrong direction all your life, if you’d embrace Him today, He’ll make everything right. He can create a new destiny for you. He’s God Almighty!

Not only does He know everything about you, He knows everything about life. The future belongs to Him; He made it; without Him, there’s no future. Put yourself, therefore, into His guiding arms, under His Lordship, for His Lordship is the lordship of love. Trust Him without reservation, and He’ll make your life beautiful; He’ll lead you in glory and excellence, to fulfil your destiny in Him.

Being trusting isn’t the same as being gullible, and recognizing this distinction is essential because there’re gullible people who think they’re trusting. To be gullible means to be easily deceived. But children aren’t easily deceived; they’re usually trusting. They trust your character. Adults, however, can be gullible. An adult will try to reason out whatever he’s told before he trusts it, and he may not give much concern to the character of the one he’s trusting.

If you hold out a child from the balcony, for example, and ask someone else whom the child trusts to stay on the ground floor and catch him, the child will be ready to let go because he trusts the one at the ground floor. The child may not know if the fellow downstairs has the power or ability to catch him, but he believes he wouldn’t let him fall. That’s the kind of childlike faith you’re to have towards God.

The Lord Jesus admonished in Matthew 18:3 (AMPC) that we be like little children, “… [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving] ….” He wants you to trust the character of God. His character is made plain in the Word; He never fails. Boldly place your confidence in Him to fulfil His purpose in your life.

Sometimes, many try to “help” God out in doing what He intends. Perhaps, He’s given you a vision or ministered some ideas to you relating to your purpose, and you’re so excited and eager to see everything work out, which is good! But if you’re not trusting and yielded to the Holy Spirit, you may try to play “God.” You may be playing His role by trying to help Him in your own wisdom. But the end result won’t be pleasant.

The best of all is to trust that He alone knows and has the blueprint for your life. Take a cue from Abraham who trusted and followed the Lord even though He didn’t know where God was leading Him. The Bible says, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went” (Hebrews 11:8)

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith (Hebrews 11:7).

In Genesis, the Lord directed Noah to build an ark because judgment was coming on the world. While he was building, the people scoffed at him because there was no sign of rain. “Will God actually destroy the world with water?” they asked, jeering at him. Noah wasn’t dissuaded; however, he carried on till he completed the ark. The Lord had instructed him saying, “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth” (Genesis 7:2-3).

Noah did accordingly, and soon as he got into the ark with his family, and all the animals, God shut the door after them. Shortly, it got cloudy and windy; and the rain began to fall until the whole world was submerged in the ensuing deluge. The people thought it would stop, but it didn’t until it destroyed all men and animals on earth. However, not so for the ark and those in it: the higher the water rose, the higher it lifted the ark and made it easy for it to glide along. The same water that destroyed others preserved Noah and his family; because they were in the ark.

That ark is symbolic of Christ. To be in Christ is to be in God’s secret place of rest and protection. Psalm 91:1-2 says, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”

Christ is your refuge! If you’re in Him, you have nothing to fear because you are safe. There may be a social or economic flood destroying men’s lives today, but the same waters will bear you up and preserve you.

“But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 PETER 2:9 ASV).

In Genesis 6, the Bible tells us of certain angels who married the daughters of men and produced giants in the earth. Thus, their seed spread upon the earth till they had cousins and relatives everywhere. These were not godly seeds; Satan’s ploy was to pollute the human race. But God put a stop to this pollution by destroying the whole world. Satan knew God had promised that the seed of the woman would bruise his head (Genesis 3:15), so by polluting the human race with the corruptive seed of the giants, he hoped to nullify God’s plan. But he failed. God had reserved eight people who were unmixed with the pollution—Noah and his family! They were undefiled. The Bible says Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and He was a righteous man, perfect in his generations (Genesis 6:8-9). Thus, through him and his family, God started a whole new generation.

Now, the Bible also lets us know that the whole world was under condemnation for Adam’s transgression. But just as God reserved a remnant for Himself in the days of Noah, “Even so at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace” (Romans 11:5). God, by sending His Son, Jesus, as sacrifice for sin, reserved a remnant for Himself. John 3:16 says “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Consequently, those of us who have accepted and confessed Him as Lord of our lives are the remnant God has chosen out of this condemned world. We’re God’s elect today, specially called out by grace! Now, we’re a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, set to manifest His excellent wisdom and perfection to all creation. What a glorious honor to be elected by God’s grace!

This is a new year, and it presents enormous opportunities for increased greatness and progress. Make up your mind that your past won’t be your master; it won’t be your limitation no matter how successful or how disappointing it might have been.

One of the things you must do is to start early; be determined to be ahead in your goals. Don’t delay or procrastinate on any project or assignment. Don’t find yourself doing in March, what you should have done in January. Be an early riser; I’m not just talking about waking up by 4 am but having an early start in the things you want to achieve.

The Word of His grace is your advantage; that’s what you need to be ahead, and successful in all that you do. Make up your mind you won’t struggle in accomplishing your goals. Everywhere you go, be conscious of God’s grace, and His mighty hand of blessings upon your life. He has opened new doors for you, with opportunities that can’t be humanly explained. Therefore, go forth and win, for He’s all you need, and He’s in you strong, alive and at work.

-GSW-