There have been so many times in my life where I have wanted to see into the future, and I know I'm not alone in this. When something bad is going on it's so hard to take the time to focus on the present because all we want to do is skip to the good part where we feel better and everything's okay. However, there are also times where everything is okay and yet I'm still thinking about what's ahead of me. What am I going to be doing? What is my life going to look like? What mistakes will I make? What kind of person am I going to be?
Most of the time this curiosity stems from me being bored with my current existence and wanting to make sure that more exciting things are waiting for me while part of me still worries about the unexpected. We often hear about how important the element of surprise is but I think there is also something to be said about ignorance. Ignorance is our internal embodiment of the unknown. The unknown is one of the scariest concepts of our lives, it is also extremely seductive. We are drawn to it as much as we fear it. The phrase "anything can happen" is the same way because it holds all possibilities within itself--some more destructive than beneficial.
So why am I not terrified? Why don't I want to stay safely within the things that I know? One reason only: there is someone that is aware of all of those possibilities because He was the one that created them in the first place. And not only did this Creator make up all of these possibilities but he also knows exactly which ones belong to me and my life. There are no unknowns in His world and therefore we have no reason to fear our own ignorance. Without it we wouldn't be able to experience the surprises.
We all yearn to discover more of our story. The very reason reading itself is so attractive is because it is a task of constant discovery. Some love knowing what's going to happen, some want to stay in the dark. Either way, we have keep turning the pages to see what happens next. No amount of pondering can ever change the plot so we have to trust that the Creator understands exactly what the story needs next. For nobody will ever know the characters more than the author himself.
