Don’t Set Your Hope on Tomorrow

“How’s your 401(k) looking?” “What’s your five-year plan?” “We’re heading out West this summer.” “Everybody’s working for the weekend . . .”We hear each of these phrases in our daily dialogue (or on our eighties radio station), and, with rare exceptions, we receive and respond to each without question.But when I consider both the word of God and the wisdom of historical Christian thinkers, they give me pause. Just as C.S. Lewis looked askance at his society for basing its “whole l