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The Future Is Not Ours to Control

pastoral / biblical wisdom

We are not given exhaustive knowledge of what is coming. We are given a God who holds what is coming. The difference matters. Anxiety often grows in the gap between our desire for control and our actual capacity. Faith learns to rest more in the One who knows the end than in our ability to see it.

How you’d preach it

For anxiety about what is coming. Trust is directed toward the character of God more than the clarity of the map.

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