The Great Realisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5KQMXDiM4
You will probably have seen this lovely 4 minute film of a father reading a story to a child of how the world changed after 2020. You may think this is just wishful thinking, but it is interesting that we are being challenged on all life fronts in 2020. It ends with the phrase 20/20 vision.
20/20 vision is a term used to express normal visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision) measured at a distance of 20 feet. If you have 20/20 vision, you can see clearly at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance.
So, after this period of lockdown and change, we should hopefully see and appreciate both ourselves, each other and our world more clearly. We are being faced globally with our mortality, fragility and our deep need for relationship. Challenges with our health, finances and family have all beset us.
Our appreciation has grown for the small things – a phone/video call or a neighbour offering to help, as well as the big things – thousands of NHS and key workers risking their health to serve us, or the decision makers who advise boundaries for our safety.
We need to be praying that God would lift our eyes from ourselves in these times and enable us to see not only what He is doing but how we can be partners with Him to fulfil His plan.
Isaiah 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. TNIV
We need to see and appreciate our health, the sunshine, the plants, the beauty of creation and lift out thanks to God in heaven.
We also need to open the way for God into those places that we have shut Him out of – our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our lives, and watch Him bring life, wholeness and peace to our land. Maybe life can be like the film suggests…..
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