Past, Present, Future by David Jeremiah

Wednesday, June 20 Past, Present, Future    And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. Psalm 139:16    In 1726, the author of a volume titled The Primitive Liturgy dedicated his book, in part, “to all honest admirers of the Good Old Days of their Best and Wisest Forefathers.” “The good old days” is a nostalgic longing for the past. The assumption is that the future, about which we know nothing, surely will not be as good as the past, about which we know everything.

Recommended Reading: Ecclesiastes 7:10

Deficient as that reasoning might be, it’s hard to talk people out of their longing for the comfortableness of the past. But wait—what if we could have confidence that the future, regardless of what it holds, could be trusted in every way? That is surely true for those who look to God. The psalmist tells us that all the days of our life—past, present, and future—were written in God’s “book” before any of them came to pass. That means we can trust God with our past, present, and future days. None are better than others because they are all in the hands of God. We may not know what the future holds, but we know Who holds the future. There are no days when God’s fountain does not flow.  Richard Owen Roberts