Revelation 22:1-5

Revelation 22:1-5 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  It's no surprise to anyone that we're living in a divided time. MLK day is a day to remember that we were once incredibly divided as a country and that we still have a lot of work to on healing the racial divisions in our country.  There are political divisions as well, rifts that seem to be growing deeper rather than shallower.  It's fascinating to me to look at my children and wonder what the political and social landscapes will be when they are my age. 
  A question I heard recently -- What kind of world would you want if you weren't guaranteed what country you would be born in?
  That question sticks with me.  As an American, especially one born into opportunity and privilege, it's easy for me to take things for granted.  But knowing everything I do now, having been to a country where they bake cakes out of mud to feed their starving children who are running through the streets naked because they don't have anything to wear, that question haunts me some evenings, late into the night.  The world is divided between the haves and have-nots, and health and wealth and opportunity and illnesses visit some populations more than others.
  So what kind of world would you design?  Scripture gives us a vision of what the final-state will be, one where we are gathered around the water of life and we have leaves that offer healing to the nations.  We will be centrally fixated on God, and no darkness will enter that place.
  Until we reach that day, however, what should the world look like?  And what can you do to help get it there?