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Predictions for 2020

Predictions for 2020 We will live in flying houses. — 1966

Predictions for 2020 We will have personal helicopters. — 1951

Predictions for 2020 C, X, and Q will not be part of the alphabet. — 1900

Predictions for 2020 All roads will become tubes. — 1957

Predictions for 2020 Nobody will work and everybody will be rich. — 1966

Predictions for 2020 Mail will be sent via rockets. — 1959

Predictions for 2020 Everything—even baby cradles— will be made of steel. — 1911

Predictions for 2020 Everyone will stop drinking coffee and tea. — 1937

Predictions for 2020 Everyone will be a vegetarian. — 1913

“Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?” Ecclesiastes 8:7

Three Things That God Says “Don’t Do”: 1. Don’t presume about tomorrow.

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” Proverbs 27:1

LIFE

Planning without prayer is presumptuous.

“Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’” James 4:13–15

1. Life is unpredictable. 2. Life is brief.

“And I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’” Luke 12:19

D.V. — Deo Valente “Lord willing”

Three Things That God Says “Don’t Do”: 1. Don’t presume about tomorrow. 2. Don’t panic about tomorrow.

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” Matthew 6:34

Many things about tomorrow, I don’t seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow, And I know who holds my hand. — Ira F. Stanphill

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne

Three Things That God Says “Don’t Do”: 1. Don’t presume about tomorrow. 2. Don’t panic about tomorrow. 3. Don’t procrastinate until tomorrow.

“If you wait for the perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” Ecclesiastes 11:4

Three Things You Can Do With Your Life: 1. Waste it. 2. Spend it. 3. Invest it.

He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep for that which he cannot lose. — Jim Elliot

Three Things That God Says “Don’t Do”: 1. Don’t presume about tomorrow. 2. Don’t panic about tomorrow. 3. Don’t procrastinate until tomorrow.

Three Things God Asks Joshua To Do: 1. Let go of the past. 2. Stay in the Word. 3. Step out in faith.

“Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.” Joshua 1:2–3

Three Ways to Deal With the Past: 1. Learn from the past. 2. Forgive the past. 3. Forget the past.

You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by living in the past and worrying about the future.

“Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.” Isaiah 43:18–19 (MSG)

“Be strong and very courageous. Be very careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7

“Do not let the book of the law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” Joshua 1:8

Three Ways God Says to Stay in the Word: 1. Talk about it. 2. Think about it. 3. Do it.

We need to talk to others about God’s… 1. Word (promises) 2. Works (history and what He is doing) 3. Will (His purposes and plans)

“Blessed is the one who meditates on God’s law day and night.” Psalms 1:1–2

“I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.” Psalms 143:5

“Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

“Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away.” Joshua 3:15–16

Immediate future vs. Ultimate future

The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…. What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…. What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, … — N.T. Wright

… writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbour as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom. — N.T. Wright

Prayer: God, You are faithful and good. Many things about tomorrow, I don’t seem to understand. But I know who holds tomorrow because You hold my hand. Lord, no matter what the future holds, I will trust in You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.