It's Been a Crazy, Wonderful, Bizarre Year

Hi, I'm John Lynch, and this is John Lynch Speaks. Just as I said those words I was thinking about how it's been quite a year now for John Lynch Speaks. A crazy, wonderful, beautiful year. Bizarre. There has been some good that we've already seen come out of 2020, but there is much that has gone on that I don't think any of us could ever even imagine happening. And we have the tendency to say, “Well, we've just got to get out of the year 2020, and we'll be okay.” Nothing's going to change just because of a calendar date, we all know that. We want to say that 2020 was just an anomaly, but the same evil and darkness and weirdness will still be there. 

...I don't know what happened to the murder hornets. I don't know where they are. I haven't seen them yet. I haven't been bitten. I stay inside a lot because of them. But I digress. 

I think at some point, we have to see ourselves as not a being right or left, or Republican or Democrat, or us and them. Remember who we are in 2020, and in 2021 and beyond. We are ministers of a New Covenant of life that gives freedom, that redeems, that heals, that breaks patterns, that breaks bad narratives, and brings new life. 

We give hope, that's who we are. 

And so we get to go to where the barricades are. We go to the lonely, and the hurt, and the confused, and the divisive. We minister to the violent, and the angry, and the displaced, and those without a voice, and those who have too much voice. And we get to love them and we get to entreat them, challenge them. With our own lives, we model the beauty and hope that is ours.

We know we are loved and that we have a new heart that on its worst day, doesn't want to get away with anything. Our new heart wants to love like crazy, wants to love others, that's who we are. And we get this precious privilege that no matter what hits us, (except for the murder hornets, I don't know what to do about them) we have great hope at the end of this year. 

I'm excited in some ways because the bizarre pain, confusion, and desperation of this time can open our hearts in a different way to love and depend upon Christ. 

This is a new day, you guys. We didn't see this coming, but we were made for this. I'm John Lynch, and this is still John Lynch Speaks.

Want to watch instead of read? Click the video above.