Grace

 

I probably think too much about the future and not enough about the present. We all tend to worry about things that may happen or look forward to upcoming events. Some people even go to fortune tellers to try to learn their future. The bottom line is that we don’t know what our future will be and, as for me, I don’t want to know my future if I couldn’t do anything to change it.

 

God knows what the future will be. That makes Deuteronomy Chapter 31 so fascinating to me. God tells Moses how He is going to bless the Israelites by giving them the Promised Land and destroying their enemies and at the same time tells Moses that He knows that the Israelites will turn against Him and eventually be destroyed because of their evil ways. I am amazed that God loved them so much that He looked beyond their future disobedience and blessed them in the present.

 

I find it humbling to realize that I am in the same position as the Israelites. God knows all the bad things that I have done and all the bad things that I will do and loves me anyway. He loves me enough to send His Son to die for me even though I am completely unworthy. I need to love Him in return and to love all those who He puts in my path today and every day.

 

“Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:4-7).