We
just have a couple more days in this liturgical year before we begin the Advent
season this Sunday, so I guess it is appropriate that we hear some readings
about the end times since we are approaching the end of the liturgical
year. Jesus talks about desolation and
calamity in the end times, about the destruction of Jerusalem, but also that we
should hold our head up high at that time because our redemption is at
hand. Jesus says that people will be
terrified, that they will die of fright in anticipation of what is at
hand. Yet, those of us who believe
should have no worries. We place our
trust in the Lord.
There
are some in our society who look long-term too much, and others live too much
in the present. We know some individuals
who do not have a penny saved for a rainy day, while others save everything for
a future that does not come. If we place
our trust and values in the Gospel, we have no need to fear. We plan for the future, but the future of our
material world is not to become an idol for us.
As we start our preparation for the coming of Christ in just a few days
with the beginning of the holy season of Advent, we begin that time of
preparation and waiting. And we indeed
wait for that time when he will come again.
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