By studying history and being armed with the pertinent data, we possibly could apply deductive reasoning to predict certain aspects of what the future might hold. And yet those two words “possibly” and “might” remind us that we have no capacity to know the future with any semblance of certainty. The unknown has long been deemed a frightful thing to many. But we don’t have to fear the unknowns of our future, because we have a transcendent God who know all things, past, present and future.
“I know who holds the future, and I know He holds my hand.” From the Hymn “Because He Lives”..
I like the way a poet worded it in 1908 in one of her popular works.
And so, I found this New Year poem written by Minnie Louise Haskins, published in 1912. King George VI brought the piece to the fore by quoting it in his 1939 Christmas address to the nation. It was titled “God Knows” by the author, but made popular under the title The Gate of the Year. Enjoy!
THE GATE OF THE YEAR
‘God Knows’
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.faith, unseen,
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart be still:
What need our little life
Our human life to know,
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife
Of things both high and low,
God hideth His intention.
God knows. His will
Is best. The stretch of years
Which wind ahead, so dim
To our imperfect vision,
Are clear to God. Our fears
Are premature; In Him,
All time hath full provision.
Then rest: until
God moves to lift the veil
From our impatient eyes,
When, as the sweeter features
Of Life’s stern face we hail,
Fair beyond all surmise
God’s thought around His creatures
Our mind shall fill.
Spirit Writer 