As the year of 2020 becomes history, all of us need to think about what we can do to make 2021 the best year we have ever experienced. This past year has certainly taken its toll on our nation and the world. The pandemic has created much misery among the citizens because of health reasons, job losses, closing of schools, churches, and times of uncertainty. There have been times of unrest caused by radical left thinkers trying to change the nation into something it has never experienced before.
The attitudes of many have changed dramatically from the years of our ancestors. We now live in a high-tech society and we depend on machines to think for us and do most of our work. There is nothing wrong with modernization and improving our lives for the good. The problem with some of this is that we as human beings, become a nation of people who have changed from the attitude of “I can” to I can’t.”
Much of this began when we kicked God out of our schools back in the early 1960s. We have produced generations of young minds that are highly intelligent but with no spiritual direction in their life. Even many of our churches have adapted to the new age way of thinking and have allowed worldly views to become accepted as okay instead of allowing God’s Word to speak to us.
I am reminded of a story that I read several years ago. It was about a fourth-grade teacher who had all her students write down on a piece of paper everything that they “can’t” do. She even listed her own “can’t” list. She had them fold the paper up and put them in the shoe box she had provided. Everyone wondered what she was doing.
After everyone had finished and the lists were securely in the box, she had her class follow her to one of the far corners of the playground. It was here each student had a turn digging a hole where the box was to be buried. After the burial she took her class back inside the classroom where she made a cardboard cutout of a tombstone. On the tombstone marker she wrote “Can’t” at the top and “RIP” at the bottom. She taught one of the best lessons to that class that day and something that the students will never forget.
Take “Can’t” out of your vocabulary and focus on what “Can” be done.
Our nation needs to learn from this instead of always focusing on the negative. We need to relive the days of ancestors when high tech was not around, and people worked together to make things happen. I know there were problems at that time also, but they were solved by working together, not against each other.
All of us need to work together to make the year 2021 the best year yet. Our priority is to realize that God is in control and no matter how hard we try to do things our way, He is still our Alpha and Omega and always will be. It does not matter what kind of difficulties we go through, individually or as a nation, God is always with us if we would just acknowledge Him and ask Him for directions.
We need to bury our “I Can’t” in this new year and look up to God for help with “I Can.” With God nothing is impossible!
