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Entrust the Future to God

By January 20, 2025February 5th, 2025No Comments
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Kay Daigle

Let’s entrust the future to God this Inauguration Day. 

Today is a time of joy for millions who expect the President to fix the wrongs that they see in the land or to bring them jobs and lower prices. For millions of others, it is a hard day that illicits fear as they expect injustice and ineptitude from the new administration.

Where should all of us as Christians focus as we look ahead? 

First, we must remember that no man is our savior. God alone is to be our trust. I’m reading a Psalm a day, and today’s reading is Psalm 20, which reminds us that God hears and helps us when we call on him. We are called to trust in God alone—not power or people—to save us, whatever that entails: 

“Some trust in chariots and some trust in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7). 

Second, we should seek peace and joy in the Lord alone, trusting him with whatever the future brings. When God spoke to the prophet Habakkuk, God said that he was sending the Babylonians to destroy Israel. Habakkuk didn’t have to wonder what was going to happen—he knew there was a terrible future ahead. 

Our fears, whatever they entail, are only possibilities at this point. We don’t know what will happen. We entrust the future to God, the one who holds the future.

By the time Habakkuk finished writing, he had come to the place where he entrusted the invasion of the Babylonians and the terrible effects of the war to God. 

Habakkuk said it this way in Chapter 3:17-19: 

When the fig tree does not bud,

and there are no grapes on the vines;

when the olive trees do not produce

and the fields yield no crops;

when the sheep disappear from the pen

and there are no cattle in the stalls—

I will rejoice because of the Lord;

I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!

The Sovereign Lord is my source of strength.

He gives me the agility of a deer;

he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

Think about that. Go back and reread it, putting yourself in Habakkuk’s place. 

My mother was a very fearful person, and I learned worry and fear from her, so I’ve had to struggle to really trust God. He, however, has given me peace and joy this past year. They didn’t come quickly, but slowly as I’ve focused on God’s Word instead of the things happening that make me fearful, God has removed the fear. One day he simply answered my years of prayers and took it away. I praise God for that wonderful gift. Yet, I still have to refocus or fear will creep up on me. I want to entrust my future to God alone.

So finally, I suggest that you join me in refocusing every day. Refocus when you depend on people or power. Refocus whenever you find yourself afraid.

You may also be interested in a podcast that Claudia McGuire and I recorded around election time, “Seeking Joy in the Psalms,” about how the Psalms have helped us through various hardships and fears. It’s also available on video if you prefer.  

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