God knows the future, and he has a plan for your life. God’s plan for you is perfect. His timing is perfect. His motive and heart of love is for your good.
Proverbs 23:18 (TPT) Your future is bright and filled with a living hope that will never fade away.
This verse says that your future is bright. You have a living hope that cannot be taken from you because your hope is based on God and His Word. For God’s word to fail, God would have to fail. Just as God and His promises never fade away, neither will your hope for a bright future.
Exodus 33:18-19 (NLT) Moses responded, “Then show me your glorious presence.” The LORD replied, “I will make all my goodness pass before you.”
Some translations say, “show me your glory”. And look how God responds “The LORD replied, “I will make all my goodness pass before you…’” In other words, the essence of God’s very nature, his glorious presence, that sums God up, is His goodness.
God has great plans for you. Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”’
Focus on the future.
Let go of the past to focus on the future. One can quickly get stuck in the failures, mistakes, and negative experiences. Past mistakes should be left in the past. Learn from past mistakes, let it be steppingstones to your future. Like the people of Israel, some people can’t see what God has in store for them in the future. God promised these people that they would inherit a land filled with milk and honey. Since they were stuck in the past, they could not see God’s goodness and grace.
Exodus 16:2-3 (NLT) There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron. “If only the LORD had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
The Israelites felt it better to live in the bondage of Egypt rather than to focus on what their future hold. They viewed their present circumstance as impossible and their future even worse. The people could only ponder on what they had in the past, rather than consider the future God had planned for them.
Stop focusing on the past. Trust God with your present and your future. Set your plans aside and seek God’s plan for your life.