Back To The Future

Years ago I saw the movie trilogy Back to the Future I, II and III and loved it, it was like someone read my mind, I began to dream about my life, to imagine if I could go back in time to change things I did wrong, but best of all to imagine that I could see my future, how I would do it and to return to the present and make the right decisions, that would be awesome, my life could be different, I could warn someone in danger, do the right business, go to college to study the right career, I would know up front who is the man of my life, or the wife of my son, I would know if I should move from one place to another, know whether or not to quit my job, know my talents and get the best out of them, I could do so many things and make so many decisions and not go blind without knowing where to go, with no vision and no clarity, without peace for not doing the right thing, filled with anxiety and uncertainty for an unknown future.

To know my future, a dream come true.

I thought this only happened in science fiction movies, but it happens in real life, I have tried and it works, not like in Back to the Future using a time machine, it is something different, but with it I know what to do, how to handle my life, what talents I have and how to use them, at what time to talk and how to do it and when to shut up, I can understand my past and know my future, I can make the right decision today, I know what will be the perfect place for my family and for my future. What I have tried and I know it works is the word of God that speaks to me directly to the situation in which I need direction.

Since the first time God spoke to me and showed me His good plans for me, He has not stopped talking to me and from that moment I have not departed from it. God speaks to me. One of the times that God spoke to me and perhaps the most important was to know who my husband is. One day He spoke to me through Isaiah 62 specifically in verse 4 “I will not call you “Forsaken”, nor your land be called “Desolate,” but you will be called ‘My pleasure’; your land “My wife” will be called; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.”

At that moment I knew that some day I would be married, the Lord had seen my future and told me I was going to have husband. Eight months later the man who would become my husband found me and told me that God had showed him he was my husband, that never again I was going to be the same, I will never be alone, I will never be desolate, I will never be rejected. I started crying because I remember the words He gave me eight months before were exactly the same and that was an extraordinary confirmation that he was the perfect will of God for me, he was the man for my future. This was 8 years ago, we have been married for almost 6 years and that has been the best decision of my life after accepting Him as my Lord.

The same way God has spoken to me through His word in many occasions, one time He showed me I needed to quit my job, another time to accept a job offer in a very specific organization, and also to my husband and I about moving to San Diego.

I know the future for me is good and pleasing and perfect but to see it I need help from the one who has been in my past, is in my present and knows the best possible future for me and my family so I will seeking in His word, listening to the preaching, being aware of everything He shows me and I want to continue walking in His will. I can testify His will is good and pleasing and perfect.

Last Sunday Pastor Ben Brinkman in his series Making Room for God spoke about the Bible and how the word of God is a light to my steps and shows me the right path as Psalms 119:105-107 says and that really impresses me that through His word my whole life is enlightened and I will know what I have to do, how to do it, at what time and place so I can definitely walk confidently.

Milena Varela