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It's Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019, and tomorrow was the anniversary of the day America declared

her independence from Great Britain.

Or is it?

The Continental Congress actually declared America's freedom from the British on July 2, 1776.

The delegates then went to work editing a draft of their Declaration of Independence

prepared by Thomas Jefferson. Two days later, on July 4th, Congress adopted this declaration,

which is why the date is celebrated as Independence Day. But most of the delegates didn't actually

sign the document until August 2nd, several signed even later.

The men who acted with such courage in Philadelphia 243 years ago

could not have imagined the future significance of their present faithfulness.

That's because we live in a universe bound by time. We can remember

the past and anticipate the future, but we can experience only the present. In the screw tape letters,

C.S. Lewis has a demonic tempter named screw tape write to his nephew, Wormwood. The humans live in time,

but our enemy, God, destines them to eternity. He therefore,

I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time,

which they call the present, for the present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Why does God want us to focus on today? Scrut tape explains.

Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience

which our enemy has of reality as a whole. In it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them.

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