Pondering the unknowns...

Sometimes, when completely alone, I sing songs about whatever my mind wanders to. Today... my lyrics turned to a question I am sure many people ask at some point in their lives. "What if we knew our future?" What if we could know our mistakes ahead of time and try to avoid them, but then that is assuming we can avoid them. If there is no God... maybe we could avoid them, but how? And if there is no God, then how would we have a future that could be told to us? Who would have planned it out and devised our lives' stories? How could we change the script if there is no writer?
If there IS a God, then wouldn't he already know that we would ask to change our lives? And knowing we would ask, would He not already change them? If no one ever died and no one ever sinned, what would the world really look like? If you were a mother to a child you had out of wed-lock, would you really want that child to be non-existant? If you grew deeper in your relationship with God when you lost one you loved, would you trade that for their life back? I am not saying I wouldn't change some of the things I did, but I am saying that I don't know which ones I would. I have grown in my relationship with my Heavenly Father... which by the way, THERE IS A GOD!... and that deeper knowledge of God and His mercy, in times of falling short of His glory, has made me able to better understand why some things happen in life and how I can USE those moments to improve myself for HIS glory. Why? Because... THAT is my purpose.

~ Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory. Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance, character, and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly ~Romans 5:1-6

Bearing in mind that I am no poet... This is what came of my thoughts this morning.

It’s best we not know, leave our future untold.
God is much wiser, let His wisdom unfold.
What if you knew you were destined for Hell,
Would you attempt to raise it here, on Earth as well?
Knowing Heaven was for you from the start,
Would wisdom or folly be what you impart?
Knowing no sin could ever separate you,
Would you sin all day long, or be faithful and true?
What if ALL your sins were revealed,
The pressure there would be, to try and appeal.
But God’s plans are firm and made far in advance,
He’d already know you’d ask Him, given the chance.
Would you talk to God about sorrows and grief,
Or knowing He planned them, would there be no relief?
If knowing the time and the day,
Would you live for just YOU until passing away?
If I knew what God knew I would hold it in too,
I’d leave it a mystery until the time it came true.
Just knowing some things were destined to come,
I’d be bitter, broken, worn out and undone.
There would never be Joy or Peace in our hearts,
As we dealt with the burden, of playing our parts.
But life has a script that we will not read…
For that I am THANKFUL, thankful indeed.

In Christ,
LL