The most important time is the Present

"Remember then: there is only one time that is important - Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power." - Leo Tolstoy

A record of God's faithfulness in the past combines with hope in a better future for one end: to equip us for the present. As Tolstoy said, we have control over no other time. The past is unchangeable, the future unpredictable. I can only live the life directly before me. Faithful Christians pray, "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven," and then proceed to enact God's will - love, justice, peace, mercy, forgiveness - in the present, on earth.

- 'Reaching for the Invisible God', Chapter 6: Living in Faith, by Philip Yancey