I just finished a fascinating book, titled 50 years from today.  The famous journalist Mike Wallace edited a collection of essays written by 60 Nobel laureates, brilliant scholars, and political leaders from around the world, each predicting what the world will be like in the year 2058.

These scholars envision a world transformed by nanotechnology, minute computers which will do everything from killing cancer to reproducing limbs and tissue.  Some of them see space cities which provide unlimited resources of new energy and materials.

Ocean resources will be developed further, and "aquaculture" will be a common term.  The era of robots and artificial intelligence will arrive, enabling us to communicate merely by thinking.  Globalization will replace nationalism.  Environmental pollution will be reduced, and poverty lessened if not abolished.  The average life expectancy will exceed 100 years.

Of course, Albert Einstein said in 1931, "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable."  It's hard to predict the future with clarity.

Here's what I do know: in 50 years, most of us will be in heaven or hell.  All of us will be there some day, based on our relationship with Jesus Christ.  The way we relate to our Lazarus, the person we don't have to treat well, reveals that relationship. 

So here are the questions of the day: do you know Jesus?  Would your Lazarus say that you do?