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“A person does not know what will happen.” — Ecclesiastes 10:14

In 2010, Laszlo Haniec made his first purchase with bitcoins (an electronic currency then worth less than one penny per bitcoin), paying 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas ($25). In 2021, the value of these bitcoins would reach more than $500 million. Even before the value of bitcoins skyrocketed, Haniec continued to pay for pizza with electronic currency, spending 100,000 bitcoins. If he had kept them, he would have become a billionaire, and Forbes magazine would have included him in the list of the “richest people in the world.” If only he knew.

Of course, Khaniets did not know. None of us would know. No matter how much we try to grasp and control the future, the book of Ecclesiastes clearly says: “Man does not know what will happen” (Eccl. 10:14). Some of us resort to self-deception, believing that we have some special knowledge about another person’s life or the future. However, in the book of Ecclesiastes the question sounds: “What will happen to him, who will tell him?” (v. 14). No one.

Scripture contrasts the wise with the foolish, and one of the many differences between the two is humility about the future (Prov. 27:1). A wise person, when making a decision, recognizes that only God knows what lies ahead. A foolish person, on the contrary, believes that he possesses some supernatural knowledge. So, let’s trust our future only to Him Who truly knows it.

Why do you see the temptation to try to control the future? How can you trust God more?

Dear God, help me to just trust You.

Author: Wynn Collier