Selected Devotion from Bible League International Today's Verse “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT Devotion It’s hard to see beyond the present moment. We can make educated guesses based on past experience, but our predictive powers are rather limited. We can’t say for sure what the future holds. This goes double for what the Lord has in store for those who love Him. The Apostle Paul says, “No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit,” (1 Corinthians 2:11). Although it’s true that Paul says, “And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us,” (1 Corinthians 2:12), it’s also true that we don’t know these things in their fullness. For example, we know that God has good plans for us in the present era. They are plans, as Jeremiah says, “for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope,” (Jeremiah 29:11). But who can say with certainty what the fullness of God’s plans looks like? Joseph was given two dreams about the Lord’s plans for him, but he had no idea they meant he would become second in command over all of Egypt. Further, we know that heaven awaits those who die in Christ. We know some of the basics about heaven from the Bible. But who can say with certainty what heaven will mean for us personally? We also know that a new heaven and a new earth awaits true believers. We know some of the details of what this new situation will be like. We know that we’ll have resurrection bodies and that we’ll be able to see the Lord’s face. But we know little about the fullness of the new situation. All we really know about the future is that God has a lot of very good things in store for us. There may be some trials and persecutions on the way from here to there, but the end result is good—very good. Our great God, who knew the end from the beginning, has perfect predictive powers; therefore, when we trust in Him we need have no fear of the future.