The Bible teaches that God has a plan for His people, and while the future is not fully knowable to humans, He is sovereign over all that will come to pass. According to Jeremiah, God's plans are for good and not for evil, giving His people hope and a future. The book of Proverbs notes that human plans are subject to change, but God's purposes will ultimately prevail, as confirmed in Romans, where it is written that all things work together for good. Additionally, Psalms and James remind us that our knowledge is limited, and we should approach the future with humility, submitting our plans to God's wisdom.
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” 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 the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.” You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,