Have you ever read a book when you already knew how all the issues would be resolved, and what would happen to all the characters? Not very interesting. Or consider a book where nothing ever happens, and everything is already perfect – would it be interesting to read?
What about watching a replay of a sporting event where you already knew the final score? Parts of it might still be interesting, but not nearly so much as watching it live.
What about playing a video game where there are no challenges, and you just make your character do repetitive motions over and over? Not likely to be a runaway phenomenon.
Perhaps these analogies are a stretch, but I think we get more out of life when we don’t know what’s going to happen next. I think we learn more, and develop our spiritual character more, when we have to trust God more. Music is more exciting with key changes and modulations and bridges – all instances of ‘changing things up’ and being unpredictable. God has crafted His plans for our lives like a composer writes a song, or an author crafts a novel. Human disobedience has introduced evil and sorrow into the world, but Jesus has overcome death, and through Him, we can be more than conquerors as well, even when we don’t know the next chapter in our story. God has given us this precious gift of a life story, and given us the key to living it to its fullest potential: trust in Him.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37-39