2123. Do you think much about this date? I suppose my grandchildren will be the elderly of the 2120s (or perhaps by then, the 70s and 80s will still be considered middle-age). Our Team 1, 2, & 3 students were asked to consider life one century into the future during CREW last week. There was talk of robots, vacations to Mars, and new food sources. Some groups focused on the new, but there was also discussion of what will remain. I walked into one classroom just in time to hear a third grader ask a first grader, “Well, what do you think it’ll look like to be a lifelong explorer in 100 years?” 

How will our natural world change over the next century? I don’t know, but I know our students will still be exploring it. What will the health of race relations be one hundred years from now? I don’t know, but I believe that our students will continue to seek justice. What communication devices will be available come 2120? While predictions of telepathic-like devices freak me out a bit, I trust that our students will learn to use whatever’s available to collaborate and build one another up as thoughtful neighbors. 

The highest comfort in all of this forecasting is that God remains on the throne. I recall a line from a song I first learned at GRCMS: Age to age he stands, and time is in his hands, beginning and the end. Scripture is full of reminders that we serve a God who remains constant from generation to generation. We can’t know the contemporary society in which our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will learn and grow. We can have faith, however, that they will see Christ and continue to take up the enduring call to “Come, follow me.” 

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

    his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 100:5