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What do you think your life would be a year from now? Or 5 years? What about tomorrow? In looking into our future, people usually consult fortune tellers, astrology, horoscopes, and many others. But instead of trusting our future in these things, why don't we entrust our future into God. God is powerful, and can see our future base on the decisions we made.

Life is uncertain. One day you’re perfectly fine, the next day you found out you have an incurable disease. Some people have the habit of planning ahead, but end up not doing it. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against planning ahead. On contrary, it is good to plan ahead. But in planning our future, we must make God our partner. In planning, we must consider God's will for us. How do we know God's will? We can consult the Bible; I believe that God talks to us through the Bible. And we must also remember that God is powerful. If we ask him to be our partner in planning, he would make sure that our plans would get into actions. He will move anything to make everything according to his plan. He would guide us to every decision that we would make. Make God the partner of your life.

Faith of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Passage from our youth service. Read the Passage

When we are conflicts due to our faith in God, what do we do? Do we compromise with God? Ask God to understand whatever our reasons? The faith of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego is really amazing. The conviction they have for God is really commendable. They wouldn't bow to other gods other than God. Even if they were thrown to the blazing furnace, they believed that God would save them and protect them. Because they have an extreme faith on God, they believed that God would never leave them. It was a risk that they made. It was a life and death situation for them, but they stand firm on their faith. And they said that even if God didn't save them, they would not bow down to other gods. And God honored their faith. God did save them from the blazing furnace. The bible said, "They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them." Their amazing conviction towards God led other people to believe in the God that they believed in.

How about us? Does our faith lead other people to believe in the God that we believe in? In our time today, there are a lot of questions about the faith in God. And because of that, it is hard to lead other people to believe in the God. One, I guess, because following God has many rules to follow, law to abide. Seems boring to them? But, if we, Christians, manifest in our lives the faith that we have, it is not hard to lead other people to Christ. If in our lives we manifest our convictions to God, people will see and be able to believe in the Great God that we serve.