+ 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 (to wrap up history as we know
it), 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 Way
of Life – and they shall suffer the fruits of theirs!
This coming week let us
reflect upon the question: depending on where it is exactly that I want to end
up when Jesus comes again, am I playing
according to his rules on how to go about doing that? If so, keep up the
good work; if not, it’s never too late to change!
By our
perseverance in living the Christian way we will secure our lives – and
it will be wonderful when that final day finally arrives!
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