The words of Jesus concerning "the day the Son of Man is revealed" (Lk 17:26 ) serve as a fair warning that complacent eating and drinking, buying, selling planting and building, the ordinary things we do each day can easily be disrupted. Jesus was speaking about his Second Coming, but remind us, as we so often experience, that a stroke, heart attack, accident or surprise stage four cancer diagnosis are possibilities that don't hold high priority status in our daily comings and goings. A popular stance used to be: "Live each day as if it were the last day of your life." Without dwelling on the morose, or arousing unnecessary fear, it is good and wholesome to remind ourselves, that truly we "know not the day nor the hour", so living the best we can at any given moment will keep us prepared for the surprise "intrusion." Jesus gives us this paradox which could and should serve as a cardinal principle in our lives: "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it, will save it." (Lk 17:33) The more we "die" to self, the more we live in God.
Bro. Rene
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