Introduction

Knowing God’s ways should be our heart’s desire.

This is because knowing God’s ways and knowing Him personally are inseparable. After seeing miracle upon miracle, Moses had still not really known God’s ways as He desired. He prayed, “…please let me know Your ways so that I may know You…” (Exo 33:13a).

It goes without saying: God’s ways are not ours. He does not think like nor operate like we do.

One important way of God that was revealed to Moses is His timelessness – His existence from eternity to eternity. He documented this revelation in Psalms 90 for us. God does not age nor is bound by time like we are – He is in the past, present, and future simultaneously. Furthermore, our sense of time is not His. To Him, a thousand years is as a few hours in the night (Psalms 90:3).

Here is a mind-bending reality: When God was with your ancestors in the 1890’s, He was also with you in their future right now. And, if you ever have great grandchildren one day, He is with them and you now at the same time! Imagine the implications this has on how we walk with God each day.

The Father deeply loves you. He really does have a good plan and hope-filled future for your life – and it is grandeur than anything you could ever imagine.

God sees the end of your life from the beginning. He is present at both at the same time.

Furthermore, at a corporate level the Bride of Christ on earth is already complete, fully matured, and fully adorned in the Father’s eyes. The Church that Christ said He would build (Matthew 16:18) is indeed already built according to His blueprint and design plans. He is simply recruiting, mobilizing, equipping, and working with His construction workers in their respective functions on earth today.

God is highly future-oriented. Everything He is doing today is to give His people a good, hopeful, and expected future – even using our difficulties, challenges, and hardships to accomplish these purposes.

Let us explore three important realities related to the God of our future.

#1: God sees your tomorrow

Years ago I had a vivid dream of a friend. He was standing on a wooden platform in a small African village speaking to the people. Suddenly, he jumped off the platform and started dancing and worshipping before the Lord. The villagers paused, then began to line up one by one behind him to follow his lead. Their beautiful sun-kissed faces beaming with joy as they moved in a circle in the village square. Then, I woke up. I felt impressed that the dream was from the Lord so I called my friend in the United States and shared it with him. Six months pass by without any communication.

One day, he calls me, his voice reverberating with excitement. “I am in West Africa. While in prayer this morning, I just realized something amazing. The dream you shared six months ago just happened to me last week!” By the providence of God, every detail came to pass.

These are the ways of God.

You see, God sees your future and your tomorrow. If He wanted to, He could tell you the exact place you will be at 8:32pm on March 5th, in the year 2024.

Why is this so important? Two reasons:

· Grace is often proactive – it often waits for us in our future. If we look for it, we may find it on our doorstep long before we ask for it.

· Secondly, knowing that God sees our tomorrow places a spotlight on the critical importance of obedience today. Obedience today will either align, or misalign, us to His future for us tomorrow. Temptations from the enemy are often designed to get us to succumb to the pleasures in the present in exchange for God’s purposes for us in the future. This is because sin creates alternate and lower future states that are outside the intended will of God. Thankfully, God is full of grace. Like a GPS, we are constantly

getting rerouted according to where we are in life. Through heart-felt repentance, we can start over exactly where we are anytime we wish.

Obedience to God today often is not logical because we do not have the future view. If we wait to understand before we act we may very well miss out on what God is wanting to accomplish. Therefore, attempting to follow God with our mind can be quite futile. We must follow His Spirit with our spirit and walk with others who are doing the same.

Today’s obedience to tomorrow’s plans is often mysterious. Because God is future-oriented, delayed obedience is viewed as disobedience to Him.

#2: God sees your generations

A common phrased used throughout the Bible is the “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”. What does this mean? God is communicating to us that He cares about and connects certain generations together. The Holy Spirit recorded the genealogy of Christ in two different gospel accounts to teach us an important truth – God deals with mankind through generations.

God thinks about us individually in the greater context our families, lineages, and nations across time. As it is written:

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. (Act 17:26 NIV).

Like a pebble hitting the still surface of the water in a pond, you were sent into the world at a specific and appointed time in history. The nation, family, and place you were born into were all predetermined. Why? So that you would fulfill your purpose in your own generation, and that by doing so, it would perpetually ripple throughout time.

You were born to make a difference at this time and place in history. God made you for a purpose. Truly discovering it begins by entering His Kingdom through Christ Jesus.

#3: God sees you with Him

As a born-again child, God’s ultimate future for you is His throne. He sees you with Him where He is. God himself is our ultimate destination and is simply waiting for you and I to arrive. Thanks to Christ’s righteousness being imparted unto us, one day we will be standing around His throne amongst a great multitude of others. The Spirit of Christ revealed to the Apostle John this future reality while on the Isle of Patmos:

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. (Rev 7:9 NIV)

Our passage on earth is quite temporary – a blip on God’s radar. Everything He is doing today in your life is meant to prepare you for your future with Him. Every aspect of this life is basic training to teach and enlist us into reigning with Him in the coming age. It is simply a preview for the real show to come.

Summary

God is in every aspect of your future. He who began a good work in you will complete it. He is the author and finisher of your faith. His future plans for you are driven by His hope, love, and goodness toward you.

God is for you, with you, behind you, in you, above you, beside you, and in your future with open arms every day waiting for you to arrive. Regardless of today’s troubles, God Himself is your future portion and inheritance.