Jesus spoke of some things he was yet to experience in the present tense. “Now is the judgement of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” (John 12:31) True, his arrest was imminent at the time, but he was speaking in anticipation of suffering and dying for the sins of the world, which was his cause celebre: his reason for being. Christians live in anticipation of the Lord’s imminent return: “The whole creation groans and travails” as does a woman in the throes of childbirth (Romans 8:22).
The writer of the Book of Hebrews refers to believers as having tasted not only of “the good word of God” but also of “the powers of the world to come”. These are experienced by the power of the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 6:5). You got your first taste when you were “born from above” by the Spirit of God, and another taste when Jesus baptized you in the Holy Spirit, and yet another taste when you spoke in a language you never learned and/or prophesied! How good it is to “taste and see that the LORD is good” in so many ways!
Likewise, we are now living in the spirit of what we will enter into in the millennium. The presence of the future is here already in the technological revolution predicted by Alvin Toffler decades ago in his book “The Third Wave”. Those who created the technology of the Worldwide Web lived in the presence of the future, and AI is a human attempt to introduce the everlasting life that the bodies and minds of Christians will possess in the Resurrection. (Forget Mars, Mr. Musk, we’ll visit the Red Planet long before you, and at a speed faster than any of your spacecraft.)
Forward thinking Christians live in the presence of the future spiritually. Don’t play Catch Up by saying, “There they go, and I must follow them, for I am their leader.” Identify the presence of the future in your own area of expertise and live in it by anticipation — and some of it by actual experience. Think what you would like to do when Jesus reigns over the nations — you may be doing it already to some degree (Romans 5:17) So get into the spirit of it now!