We’re almost through the year already. Soon it will be Advent, but first we have a few weeks of Ordinary Time left.
This time of year our focus is to be on The End, which is best illustrated by these verses…
1 Peter 4:7-117 The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Why this you ask? Well because this tells us how to live while we await the end. Because the end of all things is near.
And we’ll all see it…
Matthew 24:30-31 MSG
“Then, the Arrival of the Son of Man! It will fill the skies—no one will miss it. Unready people all over the world, outsiders to the splendor and power, will raise a huge lament as they watch the Son of Man blazing out of heaven. At that same moment, he’ll dispatch his angels with a trumpet-blast summons, pulling in God’s chosen from the four winds, from pole to pole.”
If it bothers you, that you might be one of those outsiders or think you might not be one of the chosen, remember this…
John 6:43-44 AMP
43 So Jesus answered, “Stop murmuring among yourselves. 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him [giving him the desire to come to Me]; and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.”
To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.