You are not certain of the future. You may be in an unchangeable state before you are aware.
Desire not gifts, but mercies from God; not pebbles but pearls, and always labor for that which God never bestows but in love.
I pray that in this extended time of social distancing we might have a time of spiritual nearing. Affliction refines the affections.
God is great. This truth cannot be measured by our present circumstances. But our hope can be measured by this truth.