Future’s Force
Habakkuk 2:2-3 GNB The LORD gave me this answer: “Write down clearly on tablets what I reveal to you, so that it can be read at a glance. (3) Put it in writing, because it is not yet time for it to come true. But the time is coming quickly, and what I show you will come true. It may seem slow in coming, but wait for it; it will certainly take place, and it will not be delayed.
`Que sera, sera– Whatever will be, will be’. So why bother to write it down, then, if it’s just going to happen anyway? Maybe the looking at what is written enables the course to completion?
I remember the first day of registration at Denver University lo these many years ago. There was a day coming a little less than four years from that point, on which I was determined to graduate with a Music Degree. My look towards that day guided every course I chose from that first registration all the way through my last semester. It was beyond my capacity to keep that day from arriving, but whether or not I was a college graduate on that coming day was totally dependent on the direction of my gaze over that course of time. It wasn’t enough to just sit back and let the passage of time take care of my destiny. It’s success would only be determined by a written goal that stated my major course of study. Many well-intended friends I met that first day never made it through to walk across the stage and shake the Chancellor’s hand. Their initial intentions could not take the place of a steadfast gaze on an unwavering, written down goal.
The future is a force of inevitable arrival, but this force is not without the potential influence of a written-down goal that is completely within our capacity in Christ. Four years, ten years, a lifetime will pass and whether or not those milestones include the abundance and fulfillment that He’s provided for us in His resurrection will have everything to do with how steady our gaze remains on the written revelation of that goal and that prize. For every area of life– personal, family, occupation and church body- there is need for a simple, definite, written goal that will influence decisions of time, energy and passion commitment. ‘What will be’ has everything to do with ‘what we see’, and, praise God!, the ultimate responsibility for this has blessed success as we look unto the Author and the Finisher of our faith. A written determination to know Him will bring into line every choice in between now and that great day of honor as we stand before Him face to face.
