Wisdom of today by Michael Beckwith.

If we don’t imagine or think about what we want the future to look like, it will not come to fruition. People upholding the status quo don’t necessarily think about a kind and just global society, or a world full of peace and harmony. They’re simply trying to keep the status quo intact. Thus, the world is set up only for how we’re going to handle the next pandemic, or how we’re going to handle the next war. This is why we produce these things over and over again. Because we’re always preparing for them.

So if you’re asking, what does the future hold? There are two answers. One is that we know that God holds the future. But the second is that the future is created and co-created by those who have vision. It is necessary to pull ourselves out of the world of appearances and articulate the kind of world and person we want to be.