… Whilst preparing this talk, a vision came to me which I have called Holly Willoughby’s Nightmare. It is this. That at the climax of one of her Surprise Surprise shows, when the long-lost brother from New Zealand and the family who thought they’d never see him again, make the walk towards each other on the stage, the family turn to each other and say, ‘That’s not him, is it? I don’t recognise him. He hasn’t got the family look’, and turn away and reject him.
The only tears in the TV studio in this scenario would be the deep, wrenching tears of rejection felt by the man who had travelled across the world with great hopes and anticipation in his heart, only to be so publicly and horribly spurned.
Holly Willoughby’s Nightmare is God’s nightmare too.
‘He came to his own, and his own people did not accept him …’ Imagine how that feels.
‘… But to all who did receive him, he gave power to become children of God.’
Imagine how that feels. …
– from today's talk, Holly Willoughby’s Nightmare (is God’s nightmare too)
