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Learning to trust God with what’s ahead

“Therefore, stop worrying about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Matthew 6:34

Last week, while walking and meditating on this verse, the Lord placed a word in my spirit: forecasting.

To forecast is to predict what is coming next.

And without realizing it, that is often what worry looks like.

When we worry about tomorrow, we are filling the unknown with assumptions shaped by what we have already lived through. For many of us, this happens in the middle of ordinary life, while managing households, caring for our families, and trying to hold everything together.

Most of the time, our forecasts are not hopeful. They are shaped by past disappointments or present struggles. Slowly, that is where trouble begins.

When We Forecast Without God

When we try to predict our own future, a few subtle shifts happen in our hearts.

We begin to guess instead of trust. We lean on experience rather than truth. God’s Word reminds us where truth is found.

“Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
John 17:17

Our past and present circumstances are not indicators of what is to come. Struggle does not get the final word. Failure does not get to define your future. Even what you are walking through right now does not limit what God can still do.

When we forecast this way, we can quietly leave God out of the picture. We assume we already know how the story will unfold. God reminds us that He is still writing it.

God Is Doing Something New

Scripture speaks directly to our tendency to look backward in order to predict forward.

“Don’t remember the prior things; don’t ponder ancient history. Look! I’m doing a new thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it? I’m making a way in the desert, paths in the wilderness.”
Isaiah 43:18–19

God is not limited by what has been. Fear, strongholds, addiction, disruption, financial strain, sickness, or exhaustion do not have to define what is ahead.

Freedom is possible in Christ.

God is not asking us to ignore reality. He is inviting us to stop forecasting a future without Him in it and to trust that He is already at work.

A Prayer

Lord, I confess how often I try to predict what is coming next.
I fill the unknown with fear and past experience instead of trust.
Help me release my need to control tomorrow.
Teach me to stay present with You today.
Remind me that my story is still unfolding in Your hands.
Amen.

God is already in your tomorrow.
You do not have to forecast it.
You only have to walk with Him today.

One day at a time,
lifting our eyes back to Jesus,
abiding to thrive.