Okay, so your old pal Doc Brown has come through and built a time machine. Only this time it’s not built out of a DeLorean, but out of a phone. The catch is you can leave a voicemail to your younger self, but you only have time to leave a single “two word” message.

What do you say?

I know what I’d say. I’d say

TRY AGAIN

I can only imagine what my reaction would be today if I checked my phone and saw that I had a message from the future…from myself…and those were the two words I heard.

I would probably start worrying over every action I’d done. I would wonder: Did I do it good enough? Did I miss something? Sure there’d be everyday things I wouldn’t worry about, but every time I did something new I’d have that warning in the back of my mind.

Of course, time machines aren’t real. I can’t rely on a message from the future to help me. But then again, I don’t need to. God’s Word is sufficient.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Timothy 3:14-17

Here Paul tells the young preacher Timothy to keep on doing what he knows is right. He tells him to keep on doing what the Word of God says, those scriptures that he’s been studying from childhood. Paul then reminds Timothy of the perfection of the Word of God, and how, by studying it, he can likewise be “perfect” (meaning “complete” or “lacking nothing”). He can be “totally equipped” (throughly furnished) to do all the good works that God desires.

You don’t have to worry about doing something wrong. If you follow the Book, you can KNOW you’re doing it right.