What's Ahead?

I was a 20-year-old college student driving down an interstate highway. I didn’t have any money, but I did have an AMC Matador (AMC is no longer around). Traveling at about 65mph, the hood latch gave way.  The hood popped up and slammed back into my windshield, creating a spiderweb crack and covering my view of everything. It was just like the movie Tommy Boy. Talk about scary! Somehow, I braked slowly and was able to move to the side of the road without hitting anything.It’s hard to move forward safely when you can’t see where you are going.Can you?Our future is full of unseen twists and turns. There’s bad weather ahead, traffic jams, and speed traps. Sometimes you get behind a couple of semis riding parallel (why do they do that?). But it doesn’t get much worse than having your hood fly up, completely covering your view. Some of you feel like that right now. Sometimes we face things that are so overwhelming, we can barely see into tomorrow. It’s hard to even make it to the end of the day, like getting over to the side of the road when your hood flies back.

Only those who are prepared to die are really prepared to live.

But if we are following Jesus, we do have the assurance that no matter what is ahead, we can know where we are ultimately going. Dr. Nelson Bell (Billy Graham’s father-in-law), was famously known for this quote, “Only those who are prepared to die are really prepared to live.” Because when you have confidence in your final destination, it gives you peace while going over the bumps in the road.So…can you see where you are going? Jesus wants to give you clarity. You won’t, and shouldn’t want to know, everything ahead. But you can know, and should know, how to get to your final destination. That comes by faith in Jesus’ death and resurrection for your salvation.