Men from your future may appear in your life today. They are people who have already walked the road you are about to start and are living in the reality you are only dreaming of now. Leadership works that way. You cannot lead from behind, you must be ahead of the pack in understanding, in vision and in obedience. When the children of Israel were on the brink of entering the promised land, God told Moses to choose twelve men, one from each tribe, every one a ruler among them, and send them ahead to search the land. Those men were supposed to walk through their tomorrow and come back with a report that would help the people step into it. In every generation God still raises such forerunners, people whose words and examples open up the future for others.
Ten of those leaders returned with facts but without faith. They saw the land, they saw the giants and they saw themselves as grasshoppers. They described the same future that God called a good land as a land that eats up its inhabitants. Those are not the kind of people you must follow in 2026. A true leader is a dealer in hope, someone who sees the same giants but also sees the faithfulness of God and the possibilities that lie ahead. Caleb and Joshua were different. They tore their clothes, spoke to the whole congregation and said the land was an exceeding good land and that if the Lord delighted in them He would bring them in. They refused to magnify the giants above God. Many years later Caleb met Joshua and said he was as strong at eighty five as he was at forty, and he asked for the same mountain he had seen as a young man.
That is the spirit of real leadership, a man whose outlook on the future is shaped by the word of God, not by the size of the problem.
I want you to learn to recognise and honour the men from your future that God has brought into your life. Your pastor, a godly mentor, a teacher that stretches your thinking, a pattern of life that challenges you to live by faith, these are not mere acquaintances. They are pacers that God has set ahead of you so that you do not run your race blindly. The Holy Spirit will also use such men to introduce you to the programmes and disciplines of your future. Sometimes you may not like them at first, especially when they confront your laziness, your bad habits or your small mindedness, but their words strike your spirit and will not leave you. Do not despise that. In this new year, stop following friends who have no plan for tomorrow and start following voices that can see a future for you in God. Ask the Holy Spirit to connect you rightly and to keep you under leaders who will strengthen your faith, not drain it.
THOUGHT TO PONDER: Who are the men from your future that God has already placed in your life and how have you been responding to their words and examples? What changes will you make this year about who you listen to and follow, so that your heart is filled with faith and not with fear?
PRAYER: Lord, help me to recognise the men from my future, to value their words and to follow the voices that stir faith and hope for my God given destiny. Amen.
BIBLE IN A YEAR:
Genesis 28:1-29:35, Matthew 9:18-38, Psalm 11:1-7, Proverbs 3:11-12
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