Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

In this important series we have been learning the pillars that help us to make sense of the future. When you understand the future, we are better prepared to face it. So far, the pillars we learned include: Pillar 01: Bible Prophecy is the key; Pillar 02: We live in a spiritual world and the challenges, problems and solutions are equally spiritual; Pillar 03: We have power and victory over the enemy; Pillar 04: We are called to fearlessness; Pillar 05: We are simultaneously ‘dead’ and ‘alive;’ Pillar 06: God provides a way of escape. To these we add the seventh and final pillar. It is well described in Proverbs 4:18-19: But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. In short, Pillar 07 can be summarised as this: Your God-given future is bright. This is very true, however, the converse is also correct: A future witho...

II Timothy 2:11 : If we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. Of the seven pillars to understanding your God-given future, number five may sound the most bizarre. Yet, it is of the utmost importance if you are going to live victoriously in this world with assurance of the world to come. From a Biblical, theological view, people are ill-prepared for a God-ordained future. Personal corruption, walking in sync with a fallen dying world, plagued with bad attitudes and actions that condemn, a stubborn persistence at folly, and making foolish and wrong choices, all these things mar our present and jeopardise our future. Our attempts to overcome these deficiencies include good intentions, good ideas, and good works, including ‘good religious’ works. Yet none of these can remove the reproach, stain, stench  or penalty of sin. This does not bode well for the future. The Fifth Pillar to the Future How do we overcome these things? Great light is shed from Coloss...

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there —US INVENTOR CHARLES FRANCES KETTERING When you think about it, the Christian faith is not just wedded to the ancient past or focusing on a successful present. It is helping to prepare people for a glorious future that will never end. Failure to keep our eyes on the future makes us less ready for it. Consider this: Today’s world is change-filled, increasingly complex, crisis-riddled and chaos-laden. The rise of jihadism, an assertive China in the South China Sea, a temperamental nuclear-armed North Korea, growing western debt, an uncertain European Union, and redefinition of like marriage and family. Part of the issue is that the situations we face today are unprecedented - we have never been this way before. The best and brightest among us, when pressed on the point, have to admit that they don’t know what to do. That includes leadership. If our leaders do not know wha...