Future events are not randomly arranged but are the unfolding of the all-encompassing plan of God. As believers face the future and as they seek the Lord’s guidance for the future, they must remember that they live within the plan of God.
The awareness of these things makes us look at the subject of guidance in a new way. We do not venture forward hand in hand with the Lord so that he too experiences events for the first time with us. Instead, God has already gone ahead of us into the eternal future and has prepared all things for us before we come to them. His plan is safe for his people; it is fixed and unalterable. It accommodates all things, even the most perplexing things. The wicked who are such a source of concern to the righteous are fully accommodated in his plan, and the righteous will one day agree that God was wise to allow them to exist for a time.