Facing the End

(note:  this is our 3001st slice of bread!)

Endings are difficult.  We resist as long as we can;  if it's a fight for life in ICU, or salvaging a beloved monument, our reluctance to change tightens up on us like a vice grip.  When Jesus told the people that the Temple they so admired would one day no longer exists, it was a shocker.(Lk 21:5-11).  People asked when this would happen, as if, having his timeline, they could work to prevent its destruction, which did, occur in 70 A.D. (before the Gospel of Luke was written). Jesus went on to describe the end of this world as we know it, giving signs of earthquakes, famines, and plagues. For centuries these omens have come and gone, sometimes causing people to sell all to be ready for "the rapture."  But we are still here.  The end will come, but no one knows when, only the Father. Our task is to be ever ready, as if it could occur today.  It is not something to be feared or dreaded , but the turning of a page to the final and best chapter.  Come, Lord Jesus!
Bro. Rene