When the Future is Unclear.

I've been dwelling a lot about the future, recently. School has become so hard to plan out, work is long and tiring, my relationships with people aren't what they should be, etc. However, recently no matter how complicated things always seem to be in the midst of the desert, God always has a way of making things work out! It's crazy, actually.

For instance, I've gotten past the mental shock of what happened to me about a month ago. The shock turned into utter sadness -- not for me, but for the person who took so much of my pride. The person whom I invested so much time in so long ago, took so much of me that it hurt to turn my life around. Praise the Lord that it hurt, though!

Let's take a look at what Paul, said:

Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a]have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. 

 Ok, I don't know about you but Paul talks in such a way that it hurts to try to figure it out all in one piece! So, let's see. "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have a peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand." What is being said here is, because we have faith, we are spoken for by God, or justified. By this justification, we are at peace with our Creator because we have been spoken for. That's pretty awesome!
Paul eventually goes on to say how we rejoice in our sufferings and how it produces all these wonderful attributes to our lives. But why does our sufferings produce all the wonderful things? Hope. It is the natural feeling of the human race to feel "hope." Hope most nearly means something different to every person on the planet, but what does Godly hope mean? In the last sentence of the passage above, Paul says hope "...does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."
Godly hope is that of His Holy Spirit, His Counselor, in which He sent to live inside of us. We have hope because we have the God of all Creation living inside of our hearts! That is way cool!

So I have drawn the conclusion that I don't dwell on the past, or the evil things that have been done to me by the wicked because the wicked have received their reward by God. So I do not fear the evil, or any "bad" thing that can happen to me on this earth. In Proverbs, it says this:

Proverbs 14:32
When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge. 

 According to this passage, when destruction is brought upon the wicked, they crumble! Why? Because they place their hope in the carnal, not the incarnate. This false hope gives them reason to do what is evil. But in the end, we will triumph, anyway! God is our refuge! In the words of Chris Tomlin: "And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us? And if our God is with us, then what could stand against?"

So, in conclusion I worry not about my future. It's not mine to plan!