Pre-Hindsight

In a D&D game that I DM for myself, the main character, Mia, did something that others found deplorable. I won't go into what the act was or why she believed her action was justified, but suffice it to say that it was determined that Mia needed to atone. As part of that atoning process, Mia was sent out on three random quests. I literally turned to a Random Quest Generator to determine what quests she would have to do in order to do enough Good acts to balance out the arguably Evil act that she had done. But as it turned out, those three quests not only made up for what she had done in some cosmic sense, with her Good acts balancing out her Evil one. These quests also worked together to effectively undo what she had done. With the benefit of hindsight, I can look back and see how these three randomly generated quests formed a grand plan that actually made up for what Mia had done.

What's truly amazing about this is that God kinda does the same thing. He sees the end from the beginning. He sees the entire history and future of the world as though it has already happened. He can "look back" on events that haven't happened yet and see how it all works out as part of His grand, eternal plan. So, when God gives us inspiration and prophecies, guiding us in sometimes seemingly random directions, that's because He already has the hindsight that we are about to gain. He already knows where His path will lead us, because He already sees where it will have led us. He get hindsight in advance.

I think it's amazing and wonderful that God sees the end, even before it happens and that he can "look back" on the future and see how it all fits together. I'm grateful to know that His guidance, as random or counter-intuitive as it may sometimes seem, always leads to good results. Everything that has happened or will happen is part of God's plan, and when it's all said and done, we'll be able to look back on everything and see that everything went according to God's plan, because we'll be able to see it with the hindsight that God preemptively has now.