My Prediction for 2021
Do you remember all of those predictions that were made a little over a year ago as we looked forward to 2020? If 2020 proved anything, it proved that we cannot see into the future with 20/20 vision.
I’m guessing that, by the time you read this, some of us have already not been so resolute about some resolutions we made only a few days ago. I’m also guessing that some predictions for a year that is still in its infancy have already been proven to be wrong.
Why, then, would anybody be bold enough (or stupid enough) to make any kind of prediction for 2021? The answer is actually fairly simple. It is found in my use of the singular–“prediction”–instead of the plural–“predictions.”
The answer is also found in a passage that discourages us from being so confident about the future. There are four words in that passage that may be overlooked or minimized. Those four words also make it possible for me to sum up my prediction for 2021 in four words.
The passage I have in mind is James 4:13-16.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”– yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Did you see those four words that make it possible for me to make my prediction for 2021 with absolute certainty? Did you see the words “if the Lord wills”?
The prediction that those four words allow me to make will be accurate regardless of what happens to the economy, what individuals are in various positions in our government or any other government, what changes there may or may not be in our climate, or any host of other things. The prediction will be accurate whether my health is good or in decline. It will be accurate regardless of whatever changes there may be in my family. It will even be true if none of us ever see the end of 2021.
My prediction explains the reason that Christians can and should be able to face whatever the future holds with confidence. It may appear to be more of an outlook on life than a prediction, but I think it can “fit the bill” as either or both.
Here it is. Here is my prediction for 2021.
God is in control!
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AUTHOR: Jim Faughn
