| Thursday, February 3 Who Holds the Future Draw me away! We will run after you. The king has brought me into his chambers.
Song of Solomon 1:4 Forbes magazine is famous for its lists, one of them being "The 20 Most Expensive Celebrity Weddings." Among the astounding number of dollars spent on cakes, dresses, and honeymoons, at least five of the twenty couples spent money on a fairy-tale setting for their wedding: a castle. Scotland's Skibo Castle was used twice, and Italy's Odescalchi Castle was also used along with England's Sudeley Castle and India's Umaid Bhawan Palace. While not exactly a castle in the strict sense, King Solomon's palace in Jerusalem probably fulfilled all his bride's expectations when they married. No wonder she said to him early in the Song of Solomon, "Draw me away!" What young girl doesn't dream of that most romantic of days in her future--her wedding day? Yet what a comfort to know that God holds the real-life answers to every heart's dream. We may not know what the future holds, but we definitely know who holds the future. If you have dreams or questions about tomorrow, commit them to the God of the future. If your dream doesn't come true, it's only because God has something even better in store. Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to his love, and the future to his providence.
Augustine Read-Thru-the-Bible
Leviticus 13:45-15:33  | 
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