Rushing the future is always ill-advised. You can't get to tomorrow any faster than today will allow for, so don't make a mess of things today trying to turn it into tomorrow.
“The Christian faith lives in the light of eternity, and can afford to be patient.” — Christopher Dawson
God is playing the long game. That doesn't mean He is letting everything go to Hell in a hand basket for an indefinite amount of time before finally stepping in to save it all at the eleventh hour. No, He has many minor victories prepared for us before the major denouement.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
So, rest assured, the future is Christian, but be assured, there is a lot of good, hard work to do between now and then. So, hop to it, huckleberry.
Matthew 6:34
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
You cannot carry two days at once. Today is heavy enough. So, stop trying to carry tomorrow too. First of all, you can't; and secondly, you'll still have to deal with tomorrow when you get there.
*in political theory and theology, to "immanentize the eschaton" is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth.
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