Keep Watch

^{Matthew 24: 37-44} 

^{Be Ready}

³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

⁴² “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Advent reminds us that "we have not here a lasting city", and the world as we know it, will come to an end and all will be made new.  Scientists estimate that there are billions of years ahead of us, but a look at the daily headlines nowadays filled with some atrocious shooting or some other aberration,  or frightening  climate change factors, makes us wonder if "the end" might be here sooner than we think.  Jesus tells us to "Be Ready."  That was two thousand years ago.  Are we ready today?  It doesn't seem so, though to some, it can't come soon enough.  We might use these four weeks of Advent to put our own house in order, spend some extra time reflecting on the rich daily readings from Isaiah, and ready our hearts to receive Jesus at Christmas with renewed hearts and faith.

Bro. Rene