While scientists across the globe labor in quiet laboratories, charting the course of humanity’s survival, some are tackling the question of how to feed ten billion mouths within the next decade. They bend over microscopes and models, innovating seeds that resist drought, re-engineering soil, and harnessing biotechnology to avert famine. Others are bent over blueprints of future highways in the sky, designing faster, cleaner transportation systems, or wrestling with energy efficiency to birth a world where power no longer poisons the air we breathe. In the same breath, other minds are cracking the code of clean energy, solar arrays, nuclear fusion, wind corridors, all in pursuit of preserving Earth for generations unborn.
But while these hands and minds carry the weight of tomorrow, my dear Pentecostal brethren, especially many in Africa, often set their gaze elsewhere. With Bibles in one hand and calendars of feasts in the other, they calculate the day of rapture, convinced it hovers at the edge of the present moment. To them, planning is vanity, investment is futility, and tomorrow is a mirage because “it could all end any second.” This eschatological obsession becomes not hope but paralysis, an excuse to abdicate responsibility.
And here lies the paradox: you see why God, in His infinite wisdom, has not entrusted the tools of scientific preservation, technological innovation, and economic foresight into such hands? For what would become of a planet governed by those who refuse to believe in tomorrow? The God who commanded man to “occupy till I come” has never honored idleness dressed as spirituality. He has never rewarded a people who bury their talents in the soil of apocalyptic fear while others multiply theirs into solutions that feed nations.
True faith does not discard science; it inspires stewardship. True spirituality does not negate planning; it dignifies it. To reduce life to a countdown of rapture is to insult the very God who gave humanity mind, matter, and mandate. For it is through the same science that many despise that the hungry will eat, the sick will heal, and the earth will breathe again.
The future will not wait for those who refuse to build it. And history is often unkind to a people who mistake passivity for piety.
