2020.
We want 20/20 vision.
We speak of “360 evaluations” in which we have a full circle review of an employee— so we see them in the fullest light, or can see them with 20/20 vision!
We say that hindsight is 20/20 — that we see God clearest when looking back at past events.
Vision and Seeing matter. We want to see clearly in life, so that when we have trouble with our eyesight we get prescription lenses. We buy TVs that help us see more clearly. There’s always an upgrade in technology.
Seeing while driving is important, so we replace wiper blades.
When sight is mentioned in the Bible - like a blind man getting his sight restored, in the healing is intimated also a spiritual kind of seeing. Certainly, the person once had no physical sight and now does, but also, the person gets to see and in seeing, sees Jesus. In that is spiritual sight -- often seeing then is accompanied by worship -- as in John 9 where once the blind, now seeing, man meets and recognizes Jesus as the one who healed him, begins to worship.
As we launch into the year 2020 -- can you imagine we are at that year? There was a time when 1984 was far, far in the future. When George Orwell wrote his futuristic novel, it was some 40 years in the future. But now that “future place” is three decades ago.
But as we step into this new year and the beginning of a new decade, what steps might you take so that you step with all the “Seeing” you can muster?
Often people will set resolutions -- about weight, exercise, eating, drinking, etc, resolutions that often are not accompanied by enough accountability to make them stick.
This year -- what if instead you chose three actions that were not about a long term goal, but about how you want to be. An action is like something visible -- it could be caught on camera. What if you chose three necessary actions that you want to begin to characterize your life; actions that might influence your life.
Here are some actions I’ve encountered with others:
“Read the Bible daily” “Pray 15 minutes daily” “Greet strangers” “Buy coffee one time each week for the person behind me” “Give away $10 weekly” “Invite others to join me” “Join an exercise class” “Read a book a week” “Skip coffee once a week and give the money away” “Write down three things I’ve thankful for in the last 24 hours into my journal daily” “Tithe 10% of my income to church”
Like goals or resolutions, critical actions like these will take others knowing about them, and holding you accountable to them, to make them happen. So, don’t just decide without telling others. But choose. Take action. Let 2020 not only be the year of transition, but the year of critical actions that bring change to how you view your life and this world.