Serving the Future You

Great article by Jason Jaggard in this months Next Wave e-zine: "Serving the Future You."
The thoughts correspond to a long-view perspective on Discipleship that the Lord's been reminding me of lately. In a nutshell:
Sure, you suck now. You do. You suck. But in five or ten or twenty years...how much less could you suck? A lot less.
Take this idea from a variety of angles:
What books do you want to read? Projects finished? Not by next year, but by 10 years out. whoa.
Or think of yourself in thirty years, alone, divorced, estranged, embittered, in poor health. What would you give to be standing beside your beautiful best-friend in front of an orphanage that you helped build with your grown children taking your picture and your grandchildren, named after you, playing happily behind them? Millions? A kidney?
Do now what your then-self would have you do. Read A Christmas Carol. Life is vapor and is far too short to waste it on ourselves. Love and give and fight sin. The long-view gives you context and courage by which you can more calmly and forcefully implement the Divine-will over and against your own.