Beyond Tomorrow – Sunday, May 18, 1941
One consideration that presses itself upon much of our thinking, is the question as to what kind of world we shall live in tomorrow. On broad lines, there are many who feel that they know what kind of world we shall live in ultimately, but ultimately is not tomorrow.
Among those truly endowed with wisdom, perhaps there are none who would care to answer the question in detail, but of this we may be sure: Somewhere along the line, whether it be tomorrow or beyond tomorrow, 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 of them we are paying today.
For one thing, many have lost their peace of mind and even those things they still enjoy they live in fear of losing, which, in itself, is a heavy penalty. But all this doesn’t mean that life isn’t worth while. It only means that it isn’t as worth while as it could be, and as it might have been if we had done what we should have done from day to day. It means only that for a long time we have charged against that future which has now arrived or promises to arrive soon. In all history men have rarely taken the necessary steps until they become necessary. We tolerate things until they become intolerable. We postpone reality until further postponement is impossible. There is something about us that makes us seem to prefer taking our medicine in big and violent doses, rather than to take the Great Physician’s prescription from day to day, whereby we could avoid this periodic, deathly illness, and this recurring drastic remedy. In the meantime, in the midst of all this confusion, perhaps we should remember that life is a process and no an ultimate end—a journey and not a destination.
It is the making of an ideal—not the ideal itself. If life were bounded by birth and death, the injustice of some daily happenings would never find explanation. But the larger view of which we have assurance will sometime clear up things not understood. Let tomorrow hold what it will, there are greater things beyond tomorrow, in the providence’s of the Lord, our God.
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May 18, 1941
Broadcast Number 0,613