Martin Luther was once asked
what he would do if he knew that the world was coming to an end tomorrow, and
he said: “I would plant an apple tree.” In other words, Luther, trusting in
God’s gracious, unmerited mercy would live life just as he had been living it.
When John Wesley was asked the same thing, being an obsessive-compulsive type,
he said that he would arise at 4:00 AM, preach at 5:00, visit the sick at 7:00,
go to communion at 8:00...etc., until the questioner realized that that was
exactly what Wesley had planned to do tomorrow anyway! Because we believe that
God is like Christ, we can dare to live in faith and hope and love now;
trusting God for whatever the future holds, because we believe that God holds
the future, and that God’s Name and God’s Nature are love.
-- Donald B. Strobe in Collected Words
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