Hope for the Future

Taking a break for my praying for 30 days today to give you something that I was deeply encouraged by. It kinda goes along with my desire to pray for 30 days.

I just finished watching Disney's Tomorrowland and it was a very good movie! Amazing actually! It was one of those movies that gets your brain thinking and write a blog : )
Without getting into too much detail for those who have not watched it, the basis of the movie was the world is falling apart and dreamers are the only ones who can change the way the world is going. This of course is what I want to be. I want to help this nation to remember our biblical roots and turn ourselves around. But then I got a thought, "Wait I can't change the future. Only God has the future in His hands and it will fail no matter what because of our sin." My mind immediately went to the verse in 2 Timothy 3:1-9 which says,
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! ⁶ For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, ⁷ always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; ⁹ but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."

So the physical and moral destruction of the world is inevitable. It is happening. Everyone does what they want and have no desire or false knowledge of who God is. A sad reality. But it doesn't end there. As Christians we have the hope of our futures in heaven and also to experience the new earth and new heaven that happens after everything is destroyed.
So instead of rewriting the future (because we can't), we need to be going out and telling others who Christ is in our lives. We need to share with them the abundance of life we have through Christ and the hope of our future in heaven. We all are need of a Savior. People who need Jesus choose to go their own way and even if they admit it or not, there is still something missing in their lives. Jesus is the only one who brings a brighter tomorrow. As humans, we can't do anything apart from Him. The same power that rose Jesus from the dead lives in us who do believe what Jesus did. That is the only reason we can impact people's lives.
So let's be people who bring hope to others through what Jesus did for us. Because our ultimate goal for the future is to see more people join us when the world is destroyed.