“If The Lord Wills” is August 8’s morning entry from Dr. David Jeremiah’s ‘Turning Points with God: 365 Daily Devotions’.
"You ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.'" James 4:15
Experts are always trying to predict the future–how many hurricanes will strike this year, what will happen to the stock market, how the housing market will fare, which teams will end up in the World Series, and which products on store shelves will be hits.
It’s risky business, because no one has the ability to see even five minutes into the future.
The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote, “A wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment, because for every matter there is a time and judgment. For he does not know what will happen; so who can tell him when it will occur?” (Ecclesiastes 8:5-7).
Wisdom is the ability to do God’s will in God’s timing; and though we do not know exactly what the future holds, we can always say, “If the Lord wills…”
Make your plans prayerfully, and hold them loosely. And with every prayer request and every plan and project, give it to Him, saying, “Lord, if it be Your will…”
To end a quote from Matthew West’s song, ‘Future Looks Good’, “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.”
