What can I say about this year?
It has been perfect(ly horrendous).
Of course, in the optometric world, the numbers 2020 imply clear vision. However, there has been nothing clear, nor perfect about this year.
Civil unrest. Black Lives Matter. Riots, burning, looting. Protestors in the street. Pillage, murder and mayhem.
The Coronavirus has spread across the world, and millions have contracted it in this country; with over a fifth of a million people succumbing to it here. You go to pay for your purchases at a convenience store, or step into the teller’s line at a bank, and the colorful masks make us look like a gang of robbers; patiently waiting to commit a heist.
Fires sweeping our western states. Death and destruction.
Hurricanes; the likes of which we have never seen before. Having used up the names on the official list, the weather service has been constrained to use Greek letters to identify the storms. Approaching mid-October and they are still forming by the scads.
Some have theorized that this unusual series of calamities must be the judgement of God on the earth. Others blame the former, and latter of the four, which I have enumerated, on Global Warming. (And for that matter, it occurs to me that Global Warming may simply be a tool in God’s hands to inflict judgement on the earth to punish mankind’s willful ways). To be fair, I honestly don’t know God’s part in all of it.
What I do know is that the Creator has never, and will never be caught unawares, and that He knew our individual hearts, thoughts, characters, attitudes, agendas and actions before we took our first breath; for that matter, before He made the worlds and stars.
And as a believer, it encourages me that 2020 will pass. But more importantly, I am encouraged that I have a home in heaven, and that the experiences, and resulting cares and anxieties of this life are just a blink in the fabric of time, and that “the suffering of this world is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.”
by William McDonald, PhD. Copyright pending
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