Rev. Ray and Pat Amos

“I saw a new heaven and a new earth.” Revelation 21:1

The one who wrote those words had a true vision of a better day that will come. That vision is what keeps us going when the temptation is to give up. The hymn needs to become our prayer, “Open my eyes that I might see visions of truth Thou hast for me.”

A church was located in a part of town that had declined. A business meeting was being held in a room where there were windows. Outside was a hurting world with all of its scars. Someone got up and started closing the blinds on the windows. “I cannot stand to look at this,” he said, “and I don’t want them looking in. After all, I don’t know of anything that can be done about it.” Someone responded, “We can at least keep the blinds open.”

“I saw a new heaven and a new earth.” If we lose that vision we will perish in the ashes of what could have been. Hopelessness is a deadly disease that spreads when people try to rule life without God. It doesn’t matter if it is a church meeting, or our nation’s capital, we need the perspective of the One who sees what we cannot; who sees what really is, and what can really be.

The hope of our world is kept alive by those who are still sure of God. Unless there is a power greater than our own, wisdom higher than human knowledge, and a Spiritual power greater than our material world, there is no reason for hope of a better tomorrow.

Let us give thanks to God, who not only keeps the blinds open, but throws opens the windows and doors and gives us a vision of a New Day, along with a promise: “All things are possible to those who believe.”

Grace and Peace, Rev Ray