What If You Could Know the Future?

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future..."

What if you could know the future?  Would you want to know how things are going to turn out?  I used to think I would love to know the future....who should I marry?  should I take the job?  should I be-friend a particular person?  will my children grow up to love and serve Jesus?  However,

about four months...

knowing a part of the future became a possibility....

Four months ago, my mom was presented with information regarding the BRAC test.  This test allows patients to undergo blood work to determine if they have genetic indicators for female cancers.  If my mom would carry the gene, then my sister and I would undergo the test to see if we carry the gene.  If we have the gene, we would then decide how we want to handle the information...be more proactive with yearly exams, change lifestyles,  have a hysterectomy and/or a double mastectomy.

My first reaction was ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!  I do not want to know that I am going suffer through surgeries and have to undergo radiation and chemotherapy.  I watched my mom fight the battle....and I don't want to know that that is my future.  Then, I thought what if I refuse to participate and my sister ends up with cancer in a few years....and having the test could have prevented it or delayed it...how could I live with myself?  So, I agreed. 

The test have been drawn...and now we wait!  A part of me is nervous....a part of me just wants to know and take any necessary steps....and another part of me just doesn't think about it :)

Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.