What global changes await humanity in the near future? Forecast. What awaits us in the future? wow forecaster
The future of the country and all mankind is of concern to every citizen, so many people want to know what awaits Russia in the near future, who will come to power, whether the end of the world will happen. Using only the Internet, it is difficult to find reliable information from primary sources. Often the authors of predictive articles rely on the opinions of psychics and astrologers. Find out what's to come modern Russia in 2018, what to prepare for before the year of the Dog.
What awaits Russia in the near future
The most dramatic change that awaits us in the near future is the election of the head of state. Questions about the composition of the Duma, new government concern not only those who are radically opposed to the current system, but also the rest of the citizens. Sociologists have calculated public opinion. It turned out that more than a third of the population considers the current policy to be wrong. Many expect a change for the better from the successor to the current president, although polls show that the country is ready to re-elect the incumbent in the 2018 elections.
Experts expect the arrival of a young team from the presidential elections, which will rapidly lead the country to development and improve its position on the world stage. The arrival of a new government will renew relations with America, China, and strengthen its positions in Europe. With regards to Ukraine, experts made a positive forecast. Minor military conflicts will continue throughout this year, but serious hostilities will not come.
Astrological forecast for 2018 for Russia
Star experts talk about supporting the development of industry in Siberia, trade relations with China. Astrologers' forecasts predict a long, thorny path for the state to a stable position on the world stage, stability within the country. What awaits Russia in 2018, based on the location of the stars:
- the beginning of the spiritual revival of the nation;
- peaceful life of citizens;
- measured development of the economy;
- calm political situation.
Predictions for 2018 for Russia
No matter how skeptical they are about psychics, but in times of instability and rapid development over and over again people read forecasts. Being aware of what lies ahead for Russia in 2018 will help prepare families, finances, and other areas of life for possible events that will affect everyone's life. Clairvoyants predict that there will be a revival of the country's economy, the time will come for a reasonable, fair government.
Vanga's predictions
According to Vanga's prophecies, during next year we are in for a confident transition from a protracted period of economic recession to recovery in all aspects of life. A reliable, experienced leader will lead the state to development, secure its status as a powerful, great country as she has always been. Many presidents have aspired to this. Only the name of the next head of state remains in question.
Nostradamus
The seer's essays describe the birth of a certain ugly baby as warnings of disaster for the whole world. The fact that Nostradamus lived 5 centuries ago makes it difficult to accept all predictions on faith. Moreover, he could hardly look so far ahead and characterize the future of one particular country. However, he said that the 20s of the 21st century will mark the beginning of the country's path as a superpower. about any accurate forecasts not mentioned.
Mary Duval
Predictions for Russia by the French clairvoyant are positive. The state, in her opinion, will eliminate the consequences of the 2014 crisis and improve the economy. It is known that the population will reach a new level spiritual development, introductions the latest technologies. Russia will strengthen its military and financial positions so much that it will be able to invest resources in projects European countries.
Modern psychics
One of the most influential astrologers of our time, Pavel Globa, predicts that by 2018 America will move from the position of world economic leader. It touches upon problems in the European Union (Portugal), where there will be changes similar to the bankruptcy of Greece. Globa focuses on stability in the economic sphere, the strengthening of the Russian ruble without sharp jumps up.
Predictions for 2018 by other famous seers are as follows:
- Wolf Messing predicted the emergence of a new political leader. A man with a liberal mind and a stoic character will change the course of world history.
- Alexander Sheps predicts the formation of Russia as a powerful EU power.
- James Hansen foresaw many fires in the northern districts of the country. Floods caused by melting glaciers will affect all the inhabitants of the planet.
- Matrona of Moscow warns: Russia should be wary of natural disasters, war or the global economic crisis.
Predictions about Putin
Clairvoyants do not publicly disclose their visions about the leader of the state, but world-famous political scientists, analyzing the current situation, historical events, believe that there will be no cardinal changes in 2018. The authoritative astrologer Vasily Nemchin claims that by 2023 the country will rise with the help of a new leader, the “Great Potter”, who will take the helm at the age of 55. We should expect the current president to come to power for a second term. According to analyzes of the political and economic situation, the versions of who Putin's successor in 2018 are do not differ.
Scientists assure that in some 15-20 years a person will literally live in a fantasy world.
1. In the near future, cars with automatic pilots and flying cars can be created. Presumably, by 2020, about 10 million unmanned vehicles will appear in the world, which will significantly reduce the number of deaths in road accidents.
2. According to forecasts, in 2020, anyone will be able to visit space. It is expected that admiring the Earth with outer space will become public entertainment, and super-tall buildings will serve as spaceports.
3. By 2050, more than 80% of the world's population will live inside urban centers. Vertical (tower) farms, which are already being successfully implemented, will help solve the problem of providing them with food. With population growth everywhere and land becoming more expensive, a vertical food crop scheme is the only way out. In addition, gravity will allow you to cover the entire area of the farm with one irrigation, saving both water and energy.
4. By 2045, there may be buildings made of super-strong materials created from carbon. The height of the buildings will reach 30-40 kilometers.
5. At present, architects from the Japanese construction concern Shimizu are working on the Ocean Spiral project. This small autonomous underwater city in the form of a sphere will be able to process sea water and provide energy. The walls of the sphere will be transparent, which will make it possible to receive light from the sea and pass it deep into the structure. Such a building will be able to accommodate more than 5 thousand people who will live and work in it. The Japanese are going to build this city in five years and have already allocated 23 billion euros for the construction.
6. Given the difficulty of moving around the area, Norway decided to work on the creation of underwater bridges. At a depth of 30 m, it is planned to build the world's first underwater floating bridges - in the form of large pipes designed for two lanes. The project, which has already spent $25 billion, will be completed in 2035.
7. Research that will significantly extend the life of a person is in full swing. Cambridge gerontologist Aubrey de Gray believes that if technology continues to develop at the same rate, it is quite possible that there is already a person who will live to be 1000 years old. The researcher is working on a therapy that will kill cells that have lost their ability to divide, allowing healthy cells to multiply and regenerate. With this therapy, 60-year-olds can stay that way for another 30 years until they are 90. According to Gray, this method may become available in 6-8 years.
8. Experts say that in 7 years the society will have access to implantable mobile devices, i.e. most of the world's population will become cyborgs. Devices will be placed on the palms or on the head. And the problem of lost mobile phones will simply cease to be relevant.
9. About 420 million people in the world now have diabetes. And they all need (from once a month to 5 times a day - depending on the severity of the disease) to prick their fingers to check their blood sugar levels. Special lenses, on the other hand, will read the information contained in the lacrimal fluid of the eye and transfer it to a computer. The procedure will take place without the intervention of the patient and absolutely bloodless. Google and Novartis are confident that such lenses will appear in a few years.
10. With digital contact lenses, it will be enough for a person to open their eyes to watch a movie or read a book. Equipped with built-in lasers and micromirrors that project a 3D image directly onto the retina, these lenses look just like regular lenses. Sony and Samsung have already patented several smart technologies that allow contact lenses to record video with the simple blink of an eye. Magic Leap is also working on a similar idea, but based on a regular headset.
11. By 2033, people will wear exoskeletons to protect themselves - a kind of shell, like beetles or crabs, to protect the insides from physical damage. Artificial muscles of exoskeletons will be five times stronger than human muscles.
12. In 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine went to the Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka for the project on organ regeneration. In his opinion, the human body, like a car, can work as long as it wants. The main thing is to change “worn parts” in time. To do this, you just need to introduce into the body its own cells, only brand new ones. Shinya Yamanaka learned to reprogram at the genetic level certain kind cells. If necessary, these cells are able to restore even the heart, even the iris of the eye. The main thing is to hand over the biomaterial for storage to the cell bank in advance. There are already 2 banks in Singapore and Dubai where you can preserve your cells for 47,000 euros until the moment when regenerative medicine finally learns how to use them.
13. Already grown in laboratory conditions bladder and female reproductive organs. But even wider possibilities are opened by 3D printing, which is capable of creating any human organs. Martin Birchall, a professor and surgeon at a London university, claims that humanity will be able to test printed organs and tissues in surgery in less than 10 years. And a team of experts in the field of biotechnology believes that the first artificial liver for transplantation will be created using a 3D printer as early as 2024.
14. The best friends in the future will be robots. They will write emails or make appointments for the person. The assistant robot will be so smart that it will be able to understand its owner and respond to him. First voice assistant became Siri, released by Apple back in 2010. At the end of last year, existing artificial intelligences - assistant robots - passed a test developed by Chinese scientists. It turned out that the most intelligent of them - Google AI - scored 47.28 points. This result is still at the level of a 6-year-old child. But everything is ahead ...
15. According to the expert on artificial intelligence David Levy, by 2050 a person will be able to create a family with a robot. In Japan, you can already buy a robot that has emotions and talks.
16. By 2033, humanity is likely to acquire military robots. Of course, homing missiles and Korean security robots already exist, but in this case we are talking about autonomous robots that can operate outside the zone of human control.
17. In 2030, people will be able to post videos of their interesting dreams on social networks - in 2008, a group of Japanese scientists have already created a device that can transform dreams into simple images. This was made possible by recording the electrical signals that the human brain sends. The recording of dreams will be carried out by a “smart pillow” stuffed with electronics.
…Unfortunately, a wonderful future will not be available to everyone. According to research, due to the spread of robots and automation by 2030, at least 375 million people around the world will lose their jobs.
The publications of the sites hi-news.ru, liveposts.ru were used.
A person cannot imagine what cannot be. We are witnesses and participants not only of the beginning of a new historical epoch, but of a new stage of human evolution. In a reasonable civilized state, this has never happened to us. Everything that seemed fantastic to us tomorrow is becoming unbelievable before our eyes today. The future has begun! About how it will be, this story! At arm's length!
Reasonable space
We have life online. Every second, every person, every object in one network, forming a global intelligent space - a giant social network: biometric passports, first external ID, then built into the body, they are also a wallet, a bank account, rights, insurance and later, a communication terminal. Our property is managed by us from anywhere in the world. But not everything we use all the time.
New worlds
We often see it in films, partly we are already in it now, but we still have to live until the moment when we can fully immerse ourselves in the NEW WORLDS ... God is not the one who controls - God is the one who writes the code, setting the algorithms development by creating an environment. Programmers are the Gods of the new world, it is they who will create for us endless worlds in which we can be whoever we want. Live where we want, and how we want. No limits - PAY and LIVE!
Very soon, the virtual square of an average city will be placed in a shoebox or dispersed over millions of computers. You can have a 3 sq. m. in the ghetto and live in a castle by the sea. Virtual reality will be much cheaper than real. You can be bedridden, but be a champion runner, ugly and weak, but beautiful and strong, because the body is just a shell of your mind, it does not matter where you are geographically. You can live in one place, and work, study, be treated on different continents.
By and large, the WORLD OF THE FUTURE is a WORLD WITHOUT GEOGRAPHY, transboundary and supranational, the world of countless communities. Creation of new worlds and emigration to them, one of the directions of the Fork of human evolution, evolution within oneself. Being in virtual worlds, we can be anywhere and anyone, changing the property of our body and the world around us in any way. But back to reality, all this needs to be built and maintained. Before all this, we have to live through catastrophes, wars and epidemics.
The world that surrounds us will not soon fade into the background, leaving us only space for happiness in virtual nirvana.
Let's take a quick look at the individual sectors:
Energy
For everything that will surround us, an enormous amount of energy is needed. Hydrocarbons will remain its main source for some time. They will be replaced by new ones - energy from recycled materials, renewable energy sources: water, sun, wind. But the basis of the future will be the safe energy of the atom. Only an atom in the foreseeable future will be able to give humanity as much energy as it will need to open up the possibility of developing near-Earth space and long-term space flights. But it is important not only to increase capacity, it is important to reduce spending. The energy ideology of the future will be savings, rational uses and an ordinal increase in energy efficiency.
Food
Humanity will depend on food for a long time to come. Food shortages in a constantly growing population will be solved by genetically modified foods. But these high-yielding types of food and animals will be replaced by manufactured foods. The development of biochemistry will make it possible to create a kind of printers on which products will be printed, that is, in order to get an apple or a piece of meat, it will not be necessary to plant a tree or raise a cow. It will only be necessary to immerse organic raw materials in a special apparatus and wait. After 50 years human body he will not need food in the current sense, rather he will need energy, which he will receive in food or in another form along with other habitual communications.
War
The war of the future is a permanent war, it always goes on as an element of global competition. This is a war at a distance, a war of machines, information technologies and program codes. In this war best wars today's gamers and programmers. Controlled micro- and macromachines will perform combat missions, the execution of which may be completely unnoticed, just as up to a certain point the struggle to obtain data or disconnect communications will not be noticeable. A large-scale war in the current sense will disappear, leaving room for other ways to achieve goals, turning into a set of special operations.
The medicine
The progress of gene technology and transplantation will allow us to avoid many diseases, improve the genome and significantly increase life expectancy. The development of networks will make it possible to monitor the state of health remotely and continuously. Online diagnostics, consultations and examinations will become commonplace, and the possibility of robotics will allow operating at a distance. The birth of children will not be so painful. Pregnancy, as a rule, will be carried outside the walls of the womb. Aging organs will be replaced with new ones grown from the patient's genetic material. This will allow us to get closer to immortality, we will return to it later...
Education
The ability to access any knowledge instantly, to be anywhere remotely, will lead to the widespread distribution of home and distance learning. When the main function educational institution or government agency, not to give education, but to check the availability of acquired knowledge and issue a diploma. Schools and universities in their usual form will gradually disappear. For example, several hundred thousand students can study in one school or institute. In the future, the process of obtaining knowledge and skills will be reduced to downloading the necessary software. The question is the cost and availability of programs!
Space exploration
Over time, the need for movement in Earth space will be significantly reduced. Up to this point, mankind will begin to use the air, and later the near-Earth orbit, as a medium for personal transport. And later life. As the number of inhabitants of the Earth increases, the need to develop still unused spaces will increase: the north, the ocean, air, space, virtual reality.
Entire cities will be created with an internal microclimate, life in which will be minimally dependent on external conditions. These cities will become the prototypes of the first settlements on other planets. Living in virtual reality will make it possible to condense the poles as much as possible and reduce the need for movement. Other environments will contribute to the creation autonomous communities. Many cities will disappear. Role geographical location objects will be kept to a minimum.
Geopolitics
The world is already a collection of national, political and socio-cultural constraints. Now there is a process of distribution of influence and strengthening of the world regional centers. These limitations will be overcome, and the world will finally become a gigantic Babylon with a single currency and language, reduced to one political denominator, controlled by a world government. Geopolitics will disappear, and national identity will disappear if they are not artificially preserved. In conditions global peace, democratic-political and capitalist-economic models, the role of states will be significantly reduced, it will be replaced by private corporations of the state, but the ability to choose the habitat, separation from geographical location and sources of energy and nutrition will make a person independent, and Babylon will fall apart into millions of principalities.
The era of a new political geography- empires are created and broken into many constituent parts, appear again and again disintegrate, so our history pulsates. Under these conditions, among the states, the states will remain those who sacrifice part of the economic and political freedoms of their citizens. They will be able to "tie" them to themselves and wait out the collapse of the second Babylon, preserving the people and identity.
Work
Robots will become our hands, eyes, ears, our slaves, and perhaps the bane of our species. It is they who will produce, clean, heal, fight, think, and, perhaps, continue to live for us. First, all physical labor, and then most the mental will be taken over by high-tech human assistants. This will change the nature of human activity. A new renaissance of culture and the arts awaits us, but new dangers also await us. What will happen when a fast, much more durable, unprecedented smart organism with a network consciousness, created in our image and likeness, is aware of itself???
Over the horizon...
Human life is meaningless! We fly no one knows WHERE, WHEN AND WHERE. Somewhere on the edge, or maybe in the center of an incredible space that is deadly for us. We do not know WHO, WHEN and WHY created all this illumination, but we are sure that we are able to study ourselves and the world around us, endlessly learning something new, thereby somehow justifying our existence to ourselves. Our bodies are WEAK, ROTE QUICKLY, BREAK EASILY, they need a certain unnatural environment for most of the Universe.
Our mind is much stronger, but it has its limitations. In order to go beyond the terrestrial and near-earth space, overcome the discrimination of the Universe, fly to New World, to see other Worlds - we need to stop being people the way we know ourselves now. We must be stronger, more durable and smarter. We must defeat DEATH! But the paradox is that having gained eternal or almost eternal life, we kill a person as a species!
In the 21st century, we will take the next step on the path of our evolution - the first, independent one.
What next...
We are waiting for a completely different story!
Incredibly, but true, the emergence of smartphones was predicted back in the 70s of the last century; in 1982, the influence of the Internet on everyday life was rated as "colossal". Such correct predictions belong to an expert in globalization and a comprehensive assessment of the coming changes. Ray Hammond- a futurist with a worldwide reputation. As part of the project “Experience Intel. Look Inside” Ray talked about how our lives will change over the next 20 years.
It is difficult for people to find words for the names of things that they will use in decades to come. For example, the “projector” was originally referred to as “magic lantern”, and “refrigerator” - “ice box”. However, this does not prevent us from predicting and anticipating the very essence of technology, as well as what opportunities will be available to people with the invention of new devices, because the main thing is inside, not outside, both in humans and gadgets.
Hammond sees the foreseeable future as part of several megatrends that will dramatically affect human life:
Growth of the world's population (from 7 to 9 billion)
“How are we going to feed and drink so many people?” the scientist asks. And he immediately proposes a solution: “There will be enough food for everyone, because its production will become low-cost and efficient.” Also, according to the futurologist, earthlings use ordinary sea water to meet their needs, creating numerous high-performance desalination plants.
Renewable energy sources
The wind and the sun will share their inexhaustible energy with us in order to provide humanity with electricity. Literally to end of XXI centuries, such methods of obtaining energy will prevail over the existing ones.
globalism
The word, perceived by many with apprehension, according to Ray's forecast, will significantly reduce the threat of terrorism and violence on Earth. Sounds unusual. Let's try to figure this out.
One of the components of globalism is education, which is of ever higher quality and accessible in recent times. It is thanks to him that people can live a full and high-quality life, creating Better conditions for the future of their children. As a result, there will be a dramatic decrease in the number of poor people, as well as wars and unrest.
The main idea is that progressive humanity should take care of the countries that are today isolated from the world community, such as Africa and North Korea. According to Ray, the inclusion of these countries in the global life process will make life on the planet safe and comfortable for everyone, and this is precisely the main mission of developed countries. Otherwise, there will be exile countries in the world acting like Samoli.
healthcare
Then the speaker moved on to the topic of health, which is relevant at all times. Ray is one of the few people on Earth today whose DNA genome has been decoded. Truly a man from the future. In his opinion, medicine in the coming decades will become individual, responding to the needs of each individual person. Stem cells, genome sequencing and nano-medicine will soon have their say in increasing life expectancy. People who are now in their 20s and 30s, Hammond believes, thanks to innovative technologies will live 30 years longer than they think.
Robots
The development of microprocessors used in many electronic devices around us is characterized by a periodic doubling of their performance. However, if quite recently it doubled every 2 years, now the process takes less than 12 months. This means that robots, by which Ray means various technical gadgets, can already perform much faster, more accurately and more efficiently the work that a person spent so much time and effort on. Is there a limit to such perfection and what will such a singularity lead to? So far no one knows. However, answering the question of what the familiar to everyone will turn into by 2030 mobile phone or smartphone, the scientist pointed to his ear. What for? It is there that the chip will be located, which will not only act as a telephone, an organizer, it will become a kind of World Brain (Google, as it is called now), which will best friend a person who is always ready to help, suggest, call and fulfill almost any desire of the owner. The profession of a translator may well sink into oblivion, because Maria (as Hammond named the chip in honor of his wife) will be able to translate from any language in real time. Just imagine how much the boundaries and opportunities will expand for everyone homo sapiens. One glance at a person will be enough to find out almost all the information about him.
In 20 years, they will succeed in solving many of the problems of mankind, but will not be able to surpass people in the categories of creativity and intelligence.
What awaits us in the near future and if it makes sense to make plans for the future? When we read the words of Jesus in the Bible, we get a specific indication of what to do. Book - Think and Grow Rich!
Is it worth living just for today?
“I never think about the future. It will come soon enough." These oft-quoted words are believed to be from the famous scientist
Albert Einstein.
Many people express similar thoughts. For example, they say: "Why worry about the future?"
Or you can often hear: “Live as you live”, “Do not think about the future”, “Live for today”.
Such views have existed before. “Eat, drink, be merry. The rest does not matter” - such was the life principle of the ancient Epicureans. Some of the apostle Paul's contemporaries had a similar attitude towards life. They said, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die” (1 Corinthians 15:32).
They believed that this fleeting life is all they have, and therefore they were of the opinion that they should take everything from life.
It is worth recognizing that for millions of people "taking everything from life" does not mean at all to indulge in pleasures and pleasures all the time.
Many live in extremely difficult circumstances, and life brings them nothing but a merciless and painful struggle for survival. Why should they think about tomorrow if, most likely, an unbearably gloomy and hopeless future awaits them?
Does it make sense to make plans?
What awaits us in the near future? Even those who live relatively well, see no point in making plans for the future. Perhaps they say, "Why bother?"
Some believe that those who make plans will be disappointed and disappointed. Even righteous Job, who lived in ancient times, experienced
immeasurable despair when he saw that his plans were “destroyed” and everything that should have brought him and his family a happy future was thrown into the dust (Job 17:11; Ecclesiastes 9:11).
Scottish poet Robert Burns compared human misfortunes to what happened to a field mouse, whose nest he accidentally destroyed with his plow.
Saving a life, she ran without looking back when her whole world was turned into ruins.
The poet reflected: “How often we find ourselves helpless before
circumstances beyond our control, so that even the most best plans often doomed to complete failure.
Is there really no point in making plans for the future? The reality is that the lack of proper planning can lead to catastrophic
consequences - this is obvious when hurricanes and other natural disasters hit.
Consider, for example, what happened during Hurricane Katrina. Of course, it was impossible to stop him. But is forethought and
would proper planning help to minimize the damage done to the city and its inhabitants?
What do you think? Is it reasonable to live only for today, not thinking about what will happen tomorrow?
Why is it worth thinking about tomorrow?
What awaits us in the near future? “Do not worry about tomorrow” - these are the words of Jesus Christ in his famous sermon, which he delivered on a mountainside in Galilee. According to Synodal translation, Jesus continued, “For tomorrow will take care of his own” (Matthew 6:34).
What do you think the words “the day…tomorrow will take care of its own” mean? Did Jesus mean that you need to live only for today, not thinking about what will happen tomorrow? Is this consistent with what Jesus and his followers believed?
stop worrying
Read the full words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 6:25-32.
Here are some of his sayings: “Stop worrying about your souls - what you eat or what to drink, and about your bodies - what to wear. […]
Watch the birds of the air: they don't sow, they don't reap, they don't gather into storehouses, but your heavenly Father feeds them. […] Which one of you, worrying,
can prolong his life even by a cubit? And why are you worried about clothes?
Learn from the lilies of the field how they grow: they do not work and do not spin ... […] Therefore, never worry and do not say: “What should we eat?”, Or “What to drink?”, Or “What to wear?” After all, everything this is what other nations think. But your heavenly Father knows that you need it all.”
First, he said:
And secondly:
Your Father knows what you need
Do you think Jesus wanted his disciples, who included farmers, to stop sowing, reaping, and harvesting in storehouses? Or
work and spin so that they have clothes? (Proverbs 21:5; 24:30-34; Ecclesiastes 11:4).
Of course not. If they did not work, they would most likely “beg at harvest time”, because they would have nothing to eat and nothing to wear (Proverbs 20:4).
What did Jesus mean when he said, "Stop worrying"? Did this mean that those who listened to him could get rid of all worries? This was hardly possible. For example, Jesus himself, at night when he was taken into custody, experienced deep anxiety and strong emotional anguish (Luke 22:44).
With these words, Jesus only expressed the obvious truth - excessive worry does not help in solving a single problem.
For example, none of us, by worrying, will live longer and, as Jesus said, “prolong our lives by even a cubit” (Matthew 6:27).
On the contrary, it can shorten our lives.
Jesus' advice was very sound. A lot of the things we worry about never happen.
The British statesman, Winston Churchill, came to the same conclusion as he reflected on the dark days of World War II.
About what worried him at that time, he wrote: “Thinking about those worries and anxieties, I remember the story of an old man. While on his deathbed, he said that his life was full of misfortunes and troubles, many of which never happened.
Therefore, it is wise to take each day as it is, especially if we tend to worry a lot,
Keep looking first kingdom
It is worth noting that Jesus cared not only for the physical and spiritual well-being of those who listened to him. He knew that anxiety about urgent
needs, as well as the insatiable desire to get rich and the desire for pleasure, can overshadow what is more important (Philippians 1:10).
You may have a question: what could be more important than urgent needs?
Of course, about their daily needs - about their daily bread. But first of all, they should have prayed for what was yet to come—that the Kingdom of God would come and that (Matthew 6:9-11).
We should not be like the people of Noah's time. They "ate and drank, married and were given in marriage" and were so busy doing it that they "did not think" about the impending disaster. What did it lead to? The Flood came and swept everyone away (Matthew 24:36-42). What awaits us in the near future?
The Apostle Peter referred to this historical event to remind us why we should think about tomorrow. He wrote: "Because this is so
destroyed, then what ought you to be in holy conduct and devotion to God, looking forward and holding fast in mind the presence” (2 Peter 3:5-7, 11, 12).
Accumulate treasures in the sky
Therefore, let us “hold fast in our minds” the day of Jehovah God. If we remember the day of Jehovah, this will show up in the way we manage our
time, forces, means, abilities and skills.
We should not be so busy striving to multiply our possessions that we simply will not have time for activities that reflect
"devotion to God" - and it does not matter whether we are trying to acquire the most necessary things or live for our own pleasure.
It may seem to us that by living for today, we will immediately be able to get what we want - but even in the best case, the result will be only
temporary. How much more wise, as Jesus said, “to store up for yourselves treasures in heaven” rather than on earth! (Matthew 6:19, 20).
To emphasize this point, Jesus gave one example. He spoke about a man who made grandiose plans for the future, but did not think at all about
God. His land gave a very good harvest. Therefore, he decided to demolish his storehouses and build others, larger than the previous ones, in order to lead a carefree
life, eat, drink and be merry. Why did he not act wisely?
He died without enjoying the fruits of his labor. But what's worse, he didn't develop . Jesus concluded by saying, “So it is with those who lay up treasures for themselves, but are not rich in the sight of God” (Luke 12:15-21; Proverbs 19:21).