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         (Dad:) I know you want to know your future. You want the Lord to just give you a little glimpse into the future, to tell you what's going to happen so that you can be prepared, so that you can know, so that you can make your decisions accordingly. But the Lord doesn't work like that, because if He did, then you wouldn't have to have any faith, and you wouldn't have to have any trust. Then you would already know what was going to happen, and all the little steps that He wants to take you through to get you to your eventual destination would be in vain, because you would already know the final outcome.
         Read some of those Letters I wrote about holding on and about faith and trust. I explained the reasons why the Lord can't reveal the future to us, because so much of the learning process the Lord takes us through in life hinges on faith and trust, and our believing the Lord and walking by faith and not sight.
         If the Lord would grant you this desire of your heart and just tell you the eventual outcome, then it would be like snipping the cocoon of the butterfly, in a way. You'd miss all the in-between steps.



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