Trusting God with the Future
One of the most difficult parts of walking through cancer wasn’t the chemo. It wasn’t the fatigue or the hospital stays. It was the uncertainty. The unknowns pressed in like a heavy fog. Would the treatment work? Would I relapse? What would happen to my wife? My work? My future?
I had spent most of my life making plans, setting goals, mapping out the next five years. But suddenly, I couldn’t even predict what the next five days would look like. And in that space of uncertainty, God asked me to do something radical: trust Him with what I couldn’t see.
Faith, Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) says, is “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” That means real faith, real trust, isn’t rooted in what we understand or can predict. It’s rooted in God’s character, not our clarity.
Cancer forced me to take one day at a time. Not because I was brave, but because I had no other choice. I couldn’t rely on my own strength, so I had to lean fully into His. And over time, something shifted. I began to see that God wasn’t just getting me through; it was as if He was preparing me for something more. My trust deepened not because I had all the answers, but because I started to believe in the One who did.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV) reminds us that “we live by faith, not by sight.” That’s not just a nice-sounding verse; it’s a survival strategy. Because if we wait to trust until everything is clear, we’ll never take the next step. Trust means moving forward even when the fog hasn’t lifted. It means believing that God is already in our tomorrow.
Fear often tries to fill the space where trust should live. It whispers worst-case scenarios and keeps us from stepping into God’s best. But when we hand our future to God, we’re not surrendering to uncertainty; we’re surrendering to the One who holds eternity. And that changes everything.
Looking back now, I can see how God used what I couldn’t control to do what I never expected. He took my pain
