The Unpredictable Tomorrow: What's Your Stance?

An Invitation to Balance Human Ingenuity with Divine Trust

In earlier times, conversations often began with something as simple as the weather. Today, we instinctively reach for bigger questions—questions that ask us to imagine the shape of tomorrow. So let me borrow that modern icebreaker: If you could see your future, what would it look like?

Most of us would answer with hope. And this is striking, given that we live in an age marked by pandemics that have shaken the world’s confidence and overturned our assumptions about progress.

This is the paradox of progress: Humanity has achieved extraordinary things. We have shrunk distances through technology, built unprecedented wealth, and connected billions with a touch. Yet for all our brilliance, we remain unable to see even one step ahead with certainty. COVID-19 laid this truth bare:

With all our algorithms, satellites, and data, we still could not foresee the fury of a microscopic organism.

This isn’t a lament against modernity. I admire medical breakthroughs, the boldness of space exploration, and the digital threads that tie the world together. But our knowledge extends only to this moment—not the next.

There is a tension within. I often feel the pull of two convictions. On one hand, I believe deeply in human potential—the creativity that produces vaccines, transforms industries, and solves problems once thought impossible. On the other hand, I grieve what seems to slip away: the warmth of neighborhood laughter, the slow and steady wisdom of elders, the peace of a community where doors were left unlocked.

Technology gifts us much, but it quietly takes its share as well.

This is the only certainty, as I see it: When wars erupt, diseases spread, and technology accelerates faster than our ability to understand it, I find myself returning to one unshakable truth:

“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.”
 — Jeremiah 29:11

We may strive to predict tomorrow, but Scripture reminds us of our limits. As James 4:14 puts it:

“What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”

This isn’t meant to diminish us, but to ground us.

The Challenge Revisited

So let me return to the question—not to extract predictions, but to examine our posture toward life:

  • Will we exhaust ourselves worrying about storms we cannot see?

  • Or will we build with courage today, trusting the One who shapes every tomorrow?

In the end, our hope doesn’t rest in forecasting the future. It rests in the One who holds it.


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