The final Monday – and final week – of the year!
For many people, Mondays are one of their least-favorite days of the week anyway. But on this Monday, we say goodbye to the final Monday of one of the most memorable years in our history.
Who knows what the history books will eventually call this? How will they see it? How will we see it? What will my children and potential grandchildren say about what has been experienced this year.
Crazy 2020
We talk about it as if the year 2020 had something to do with it. Right?
The year itself had nothing to do with our problems and the craziness that has been around us this year. In fact, I wish I could blame it on the year itself because it would give me hope that my entire world (or the entire world) will change by next Monday. I can hear it now.
I can’t wait! Can you? The first Monday of 2021 is next week. All will be different. Everything will have changed. 2020 will be gone. It will be so nice.
But, in all reality, it does not work that way. Essentially we have placed the crazy, unmitigated disaster of the past ten months on the shoulders of 2020. It would be nice to think that everything will be fixed, taken care of, or changed by next Monday. However, we realize life does not work that way. Instead, the day on the calendar helps us identify when the craziness took place but now why it took place.
The Last Monday and Week of the Year
What’s the point?
I think there are two things to consider today in our minute together.
First, we do not want to blame a year for what has been the most challenging days in my memory. In God’s providence, these days, which are so miserable and filled with suffering, help fulfill God’s plan for the universe and for us as individuals in it (Col 1:17; Matt 10:29-30; 1 Cor 8:6). We do not know where we are in that plan, but we do know that God continues to work His plan. So in one essence, we rob God of His glory when we blame a year for how tough it has been. And it has.
Second, we also do not want to look at a future day on the calendar for our hope this week. As followers of Christ, our hope is in Christ. We depend upon Him to help sustain us even in the midst of these hard days.
Will most people be glad 2020 is gone? I think so.
Is it bad to do so? No, as it has been a rough many days.
Is your hope in 2021? Hopefully not. Our hope needs to be in Christ regardless of what day is on the calendar.
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