How to Handle Uncertainty About the Future

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like nothing is certain right now? Whether it's vacations, school, weddings, child care, graduations, retirement, promotions, or jobs, none of it feels certain. But followers of Jesus shouldn't be wrecked by uncertainty. In this episode we look at the practical ways Jesus helps us through uncertainty. Interested in more content like this? Scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-should-christians-respond-to-coronavirus/ (How Should Christians Respond to Coronavirus?) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/why-we-worry-and-how-to-respond/ (Why We Worry and How to Respond). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.5	I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Patrick I've been
0:15.0	asking a lot of people what they've been learning in the last 120 days
0:19.1	about themselves or about life and then sharing one of the things that I've been learning is that I really hate
0:26.4	uncertainty and I don't think I realized how much I hated it until everything in my life became uncertain. I mean it's been really hard for me
0:36.9	because I like to plan and I like to know the plan and I'm okay with a plan
0:41.7	changing but I kind of want to know where we're headed and that's just not the way things are right now is it?
0:49.7	No, it's not at all and I feel the exact same way.
0:53.0	I sat down the other day and I just started making a list of things
0:56.6	that I wasn't certain about looking forward.
0:59.1	Just looking at the next few months, I'm not certain about school
1:02.0	for my kids, I'm not certain about school for my kids. I'm not certain about
1:03.7	child care. I'm not certain about finances, work, work hours. I'm not certain
1:10.0	about, I mean I was supposed to do some weddings are those going to happen I'm just doing
1:13.4	the wedding I feel bad for people who are having weddings they have no idea if their
1:16.1	weddings is going to happen I've been getting asked by people to do weddings and
1:19.8	then they keep changing the location changes the date changes a month changes I just you just
1:25.6	help they move it to an island well I don't think they would take me to the
1:31.6	no they wouldn't you just get left behind no they just get like their cuss Well, I don't think they would take me to the idea. No, they would have to.
1:33.8	No, they just get like their cousin to do it or something.
1:36.4	Everything's uncertain here at church.
1:38.5	We used to have plans that maybe were six months out or three months out we don't make plans now that
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