Spies Like Us

We all tend to “spy out” our future to predict what we think is possible or likely. Whatever we find, two questions determine how we will respond to it: a) What has God actually promised us? b) How might God expect us to participate in accomplishing it? When we answer these biblically, we experience our future as simultaneously more scary and more exciting than anything we could have dreamed up ourselves. More important, we experience God’s character as simultaneously more generous and more powerful than we ever could have imagined.