Prophet For Posterity - Unfolding The Future

Week Five of The Glass Desk Book Study 

Read Chapter Five: 

Monday – pages 77-79

Tuesday – pages 80-82

Wednesday – pages 83-85

Thursday – pages 86-89

Friday – pages 90-92

Saturday & Sunday – spend time with the Lord and journal answers to chapter five questions.

The future.

We look toward it with hope and expectation. We plan it. We try to control it. We daydream about how it could be, and there has been an obsession with trying to predict it, or travel to it, for probably most of human history.

We spend years of our life preparing for various parts of our future. We go to college or trade school to prepare ourselves for employment. We contribute to retirement accounts to eventually exit employment and spend our future golden years gardening or traveling the country in an RV.

We live a significant majority of our lives focused on our future.

As Christians, the Gospel calls us to look expectantly toward the future and to Christ’s return. He has promised to return, and as believers, our continual hope is for Him to usher in His Kingdom.

If we are honest, though, how many of us diligently focus on Christ’s return when we think about our future? It’s effortless to get stuck on the me-train as we map out and plan the future we consider ideal.

This week’s reading is very light, and so this post has followed suit! As you make your way through the reading, I hope that you will realize your future is about so much more than education, work, marriage, kids, and retirement. Our futures are meant to be a reflection of Him and His redemption.  

When He is the focus of our future, and we seek the Holy Spirit in the decisions we make pertaining to our future; we genuinely do become prophets for our posterity.

Let this week’s reading inspire you to see your future as a vector to display His glory and redemption.

Let me know what you think of the questions below.

1. Have you seen the redeeming hand of God move in your life?

2. Does it excite you to think about unfolding your future?

Happy reading, friends!