They say hindsight is 20/20.
We don’t always know the value of something until we have passed it by.
We also may not know the importance of something we do or don’t do until the opportunity is long gone.
Have you ever prayed a prayer that you forgot about
and you find out your prayer has been answered far above what you expected?
Or have you had the experience that someone reminds you
of something you said or did that changed their perspective
or their life in some instance?
If you have ever heard positive effects of something you have done,
it is the work that God has done through you.
God puts us in places and allows us to be given opportunities
to bless others and to love others in His name.
If you call yourself by the name of Christ and consider yourself a follower,
you know at least some of what He has commanded us to do.
Jesus loves the poor.
He is glad when we give to those in need, when we reach out to the hurting,
the orphans and the widows.
If we refuse, we are refusing to help Jesus Himself.
And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you,
inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren,
ye have done it unto Me. Matthew 25:40
There is one such story in The Bible
that tells of a Rich Man who experienced 20/20 vision after the fact.
The Rich Man and Lazarus
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen,
and fared sumptuously every day:
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died,
and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom:
the rich man also died, and was buried;
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off,
and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son,
remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things,
and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed:
so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot;
neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father,
that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead,
they will repent.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Luke 16:19-31
A warning to us all.
Listen to the words of scripture.
Find out what God delights in and put Him first in your life above all your worldly possessions and all of your comforts.
Your hindsight will then be pleasantness about what you have done for Jesus.