Trusting Our Future to God 将未来交给上帝
Dexu Xia
No one knows what is coming. Ecclesiastes 10:14
In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first purchase with bitcoin (a digital currency then worth a fraction of a penny each), paying 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas ($25). In 2021, at its highest value during the year, those bitcoins would have been worth well more than $500 million. Back before the value skyrocketed, he kept paying for pizzas with coins, spending 100,000 bitcoins total. If he’d kept those bitcoins, their value would’ve made him a billionaire sixty-eight times over and placed him on the Forbes’ “richest people in the world” list. If only he’d known what was coming.
Of course, Hanyecz couldn’t possibly have known. None of us could have. Despite our attempts to comprehend and control the future, Ecclesiastes rings true: “No one knows what is coming” (10:14). Some of us delude ourselves into thinking we know more than we do, or worse, that we possess some special insight about another person’s life or future. But as Ecclesiastes pointedly asks: “who can tell someone else what will happen after them?” (v. 14). No one.
Scripture contrasts a wise and a foolish person, and one of the many distinctions between the two is humility about the future (Proverbs 27:1). A wise person recognizes that only God truly knows what’s over the horizon as they make decisions. But foolish people presume knowledge that isn’t theirs. May we have wisdom, trusting our future to the only One who actually knows it. By: Winn Collier
Where do you see temptation to control the future? How can you better trust God with your coming days?
Dear God, help me to simply trust You today
人却不知将来有什么事。—传道书10章14节
在2010年，程序员拉斯洛 · 汉耶兹（Laszlo Hanyecz）用比特币进行了第一次的交易。比特币是虚拟货币，当时一枚比特币的价值不到一美分。他用一万枚比特币购买了两份披萨（约25美元），而这一万枚比特币到了2021年币值高峰时期，总价值超过5亿美金！在比特币价格飙涨之前，汉耶兹一直都用它来买披萨，总共花了十万枚比特币。若当初他保留这些虚拟货币，现今早已富可敌国，也肯定会荣登“全球富豪榜”。只可惜他当时并不知道未来会发生的事。
汉耶兹当然不可能未卜先知，任何人都不能。虽然人们试图理解并掌控未来，但传道书却一语道破：“人却不知将来有什么事”（10章14节）。有些人会自欺欺人，以为自己知道的比实际上的更多，甚至有些人还以为自己拥有独特的洞察力，能看透别人的人生或未来。但传道书却一针见血地问道：“他身后的事，谁能告诉他呢？”（14节）答案是没有人。
圣经将智慧人与愚昧人两相对照，两者之间最明显的一个差别，是智慧人以谦卑的态度面对未来（箴言27章1节）。智慧人在做决定时，明白唯有上帝才能够预知一切，但愚昧人以为自己什么都知道。只有这位上帝真正知道你我的未来，愿我们都拥有智慧，懂得将自己的未来交在祂手中。
哪些事很容易让你以为自己能掌控未来？
你要如何将未来完全交托给上帝？
亲爱的上帝，今日求祢帮助我能单单信靠祢。