Beyond Tomorrow – Sunday, August 12, 1951
One question that constantly presses itself upon us is the question as to what kind of world we shall live in tomorrow—what kind of world we shall find for ourselves and leave for our children’s children.
On broad lines, there may be those who feel that they know what kind of world we shall live in ultimately, when all eternal plans and purposes prevail and when we shall have found that long-looked-for heaven on earth, but ultimately is not the immediate tomorrow, and the more or less immediate tomorrow may cause us much concern.
Whatever we may meet tomorrow, of this we may be sure: Somewhere along the line, whether immediately or remotely, we shall be well rewarded for all we have done well and worthily, and we shall pay a price for all our mistakes, for all our indifference, for all our misdirected actions. Some of these penalties do not wait for tomorrow.
For some we are paying in the present—despite our preference to charge against the future. Under some circumstances it may be possible, for a long time, to charge against the future—but the future we charge against comes ever closer. In all history men have rarely faced facts until facts had to be faced.
We avoid things until they become unavoidable. We postpone reality until further postponement is impossible. There is something about us that somehow makes us seem to prefer taking our medicine in big and violent doses, rather than taking the Great Physician’s prescription—rather than following the formula of sound living from day to day whereby we could avoid the periodic, deathly illnesses and the recurring drastic remedy.
In the meantime, let the immediate tomorrow hold what it will; there are greater things beyond the immediate tomorrow, in the providences of the Lord our God. And we have within our reach a wonderful world even in the present if we will pay the price of personal and public repentance and return to the God-given principles which offer the only path to personal and permanent peace.
“The Spoken Word,” heard over Radio Station K S L and the nationwide Columbia Broadcasting System, from the Tabernacle, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Sunday, August 12, 1951, 11:00 to 11:30 a.m., Eastern Time. Copyright, 1951
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August 12, 1951
Broadcast Number 1,147