The
liturgy, prayers and readings of today are brief and to the point: and
their point is this: we do not know
when the Lord will come, and so we must be ready all the time! Not the kind of sitting around kind
of waiting, but the “keep doing what you
have been taught all along” kind of waiting. In a sense it is like a test.
Is all of this “Jesus stuff “and religious stuff real or not? If it is then,
the final day will not be terrible for those who are faithful and faith-filled;
and looking forward in hope to eternal peace with God: they shall not be disappointed. But, as the first reading tells us, those who just don’t want to buy
into the program, those who think they know better than Jesus and his religion,
those who think they will slip through the cracks and land somehow in the same
eternity as everyone else: they are
mistaken. There are consequence to our choices regarding Jesus and his
religion – and they shall suffer theirs!
The terrible persecutions that
Christ tells us his followers should expect will lead to one great thing: “to
your giving testimony.”
The ability to speak a word of
wisdom that we do not prepare beforehand, that Jesus himself will give us, and
that leave our adversaries powerless to resist is an irrefutable sign of the
authority and majesty of Christ.
“The day is coming when all
the proud and all evildoers will be stubble.”
The words of wisdom of Jesus
are what turn the wicked to stubble.
Bur for those who fear God’s
name, “there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.”
Christ calls us to take very
seriously his provident care of us: “Not a hair on your head will be destroyed.”
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