Fretting over the Future
Do you fret over the future or ignore it? Does it stress you or surprise you? Are you obsessed or ignorant? When Jesus tackles questions of the future in Mark 13, we get the sense that he’s aware of these two dangers – being uninterested or hyper-interested. And as he offers glimpses of the future (which can be somewhat mysterious), he constantly counters them with a call to ‘watch out’ in the present. To ‘look ahead’, but also ‘watch your step’. And, above all of that, to know that God is sovereign – both in his planning and execution of the future.
