“Welcome to the Future” is the name of Brad Paisley’s newest song. It reflects how far we’ve come over the years, specifically with technology and racism. The video below is of Brad performing it at the White House for President Obama (even seems to make the President tear up a time or two).

And here’s an additional verse that was left out of the radio cut, marveling at how he married actress Kimberly Williams.

Amanda and I listened to this song (2-3 times consecutively) while we drove in the mountains last Friday and shared some emotional thoughts about how far we’d come. We have been reading Hebrews in the mornings for our Bible study time together; it struck me that the message of Hebrews 11 (really the whole book) is “welcome to the future.”

Look at verse 13, “These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.”

Notice what verses 39-40 say: “And all these, ​though commended through their faith, ​did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, ​that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”

Through the work of Christ, we get what they were waiting for.

Welcome to the future.

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