Your Future is Now

Most people have little idea about what the future holds.  Some live like there in no tomorrow and others live with regrets of their past.  They are trapped in time and held captive to fate believing the words of an old song. "Que sera, sera what ever will be will be the future is not ours to see que sera, sera."  Well, I am here to tell you the future is yours to see and not only to see but experience in the present.  That sounds impossible but nothing is impossible with God, but all things are possible to those who believe.  Scripture tells us our eye has not seen and ear has not heard neither has it entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for those who love Him, but God has revealed them to us by His Spirit.  The future is already revealed by God's Spirit not some day in the future, but to those who engage the Spirit of God. 

Jesus said blessed are the pure at heart for they shall see God.  For most people the future is hidden behind a veil of guilt, shame,offense, timidity and many more similar conditions.  All these  prevent us from seeing God and what the future holds.  Becoming pure in heart is to be free of the conditions mentioned above.  Our hearts have already been cleansed by the blood of Christ but it is not a reality in many of our lives.  The shame, guilt and condemnation of past failures comes back to haunt and imprison us in the past.

Just as memories use our imagination to bring back the past, so our imagination can use God's promises to take us into the future.  The past is something we've already experienced whether good or bad it is real to us.  We try to forget the bad but the devil is prompt to remind us.  It is to his benefit that we never move out of the past and never hope for the future but remain in defeat.

There is a glorious future ahead of us, but it's hidden behind the curtain of time, space and law.  We are so used to the limitations of time and the laws that govern nature that we don't even expect anything different.  We get caught in the hamster wheel of life's predictive cycles and become bored to death.  As glorious as Solomon's kingdom was he said it was all vanity and vexing to his spirit.  Solomon had a great imagination and built the most amazing kingdom earthbound eyes have ever seen, yet he became very bored with the predictive cycles of life and nature.  Solomon was trapped in time, space and the laws of nature.  The greatest vision and wisdom known to humanity could not release him from the jaws of law and time.  He didn't have the same passion to worship God as his father David and that was likely why the veils were not lifted from his imagination.  The good news for us is that Jesus, the Greater One than Solomon has come and through His sacrifice upon the cross has released humanity from every governing law and border wall that separates us from God and the future.

God lives in eternity and the only way to experience His world is to move out from under the government of law, time and space into the realm of eternity and the glorious liberty of the sons of God.  The first step in making that a reality is to rid ourselves of every blinding veil.  Sin caused Adam and Eve to cover themselves with fig leaves because they were ashamed.  Then they hid further behind the bush because they were fearful.  Getting free from fear, shame, lack of forgiveness and guilt will unveil our spiritual eyes and we will begin to see beyond the veil.  The veil between the present and the future is actually in our own minds.  We must renew our minds to know what the will of God is for us.

King David was a passionate worshiper of God a man after God's heart.  Though he had many life experiences that could have driven him to the pit of despair he maintained a passionate relationship with God.  He didn't allow the negative things of his life to form a veil over his eyes, but encouraged himself in the Lord.  David saw the future and brought it into his day.  He pressed through the barriers of time and law.  He went to the house of God and unlawfully partook of the showbread which was strictly for the priests.  He saw the future day when all God's children would be priests and able to partake of the bread of life.  David built a tabernacle that contained the ark of God surrounded only by musicians and worshipers allowing all to enter God's presence.  Again he saw the future removal of the veil that concealed the presence of God in the most holy place where only the high priest could go once a year with blood.  David din't do these things out of defiance, but he had an understanding that God's laws are there to separate the passive from the passionate, the mild from the wild, the lukewarm from the hot and the blind from those who see. 

The ball has been in our court so to speak, it is time to take a swing.  God is gracious and knows our heart so don't be afraid of a few misses, just determine not to allow shame or guilt to overtake you for there is no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

John Scheda