2020 Thoughts
What if…
What if 2020 isn’t a waste?
And it isn’t the year that wasn’t?
Or the year we are sending back?
I’ve laughed at all the 2020 memes. Laughter is good medicine.
But, after a while, God started to speak a different truth.
What if… this is truly the year of clear 2020 vision?
What if… everything uncomfortable is bringing sweeping changes that are desperately needed?
What if… all the promises you heard for this year are still valid!
When I prayed about 2020 I kept hearing that it was the year for breakthrough. I was so excited about what I thought that would look like.
2019 ended in the worst heartbreak of my life, and I thought that surely 2020 was the year everything would change. I clung desperately to the belief that things had to get easier. I wanted breakthrough but I wanted it my way.
In my version of breakthrough, we were going to get ahead financially instead of hanging on by our fingernails, and after years of waiting the dreams we have for our family were finally going to come true. The Cause would flourish and each of our ministries would have more than enough financially. I would finally get to go to Italy, on the trip I had been dreaming about for 10 years.
Life was going to be easy. I would have more than enough. Vacation was coming. My version of the breakthrough was all settled. I knew what it would look like. It was going to be simple, easy, and exactly what I wanted.
But, my way isn’t God’s way. In God’s economy, my character is worth infinitely more than me getting what I want.
This truth is applicable on a micro and macro level. As a world, God is allowing us (not causing us) to be uncomfortable so that true, lasting, desperately needed change can happen. A beautiful, sweeping, global reset.
The question is, can I accept God’s vision for 2020, not my own? Can I surrender the things I want, even the “good” things, and accept that God’s ways are better? Will I choose to continue to press in, even when everything in me just wants to say, “enough already, I’m done,” and find ways to temporarily dull the pain?
What God speaks in the light is true even in the dark. 2020 is still the year of vision and breakthrough, so let’s embrace it.
What are the uncomfortable things you are called to press into during this season?
Where is God, in infinite goodness, inviting you to embrace change?
Who are you going to be and what role are you going to play, during this pivotal this time in history?
Let’s embrace 2020 as a year where God is working powerfully, breaking down strongholds, moving mountains, beckoning us closer, weeding out what needs to go, and breaking through!
