I’m by no means an old man, but I’ve lived long enough now to notice that it’s really hard to tell what will stay the same forever and what will drastically change just around the corner. When I was born, NASA had less computing power than I am currently carrying in my pocket–and yet, traveling by rocket pack remains a distant prospect. On a political level, none of us would have dreamed in 1980 that the Berlin Wall would be torn down and apartheid dismantled just a few short years in the future; but peace in the Middle East seems at least as far away as ever.
Simeon and Anna both hoped for and believed in God doing something in their lifetime that people had been waiting 700 years to see. It took a while (if I’m doing my math right, Anna is over 100 years old), but it happened. What are one or two big changes for the better you’d like to see happen in our world? Ask God to give you the gift he gave Simeon and Anna, of seeing those things happen in your own lifetime.
