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Advent 1 - Tuesday
By Pat Lee | December 2, 2008
Tuesday December 2, 2008
If Not When, How?
Scripture Reading: Mark 13: 32-37
Scripture Verse: “Therefore keep awake…for you do not know when the Master of the house will come…” Mark 13:35
Even if we don’t know when Jesus is returning, at least we do know how to live until he does.
Jesus concluded his teaching about the last times with a parable about a man who goes away on a journey, leaving his servants in charge “each with his own work.” As time passes, will they become lax in their own work? Jesus tells us to be steadfast and faithful in what the master has given us to do and to be “on the job” when he returns.
God has work for us to do in our present place and circumstances. He has given us the skill to do some things and not others. The way we prepare for the future coming of the Lord is to be faithful in our every day tasks right now. A great Anglican priest, John Keble expressed this Anglican spiritual approach in his hymn “New Every Morning is the Love”
We are to be found trying to be faithful in our daily lives when Jesus comes– doing our part in continuing Jesus’ ministry here at St. John’s in the community in which God has placed this church.
We are in this for the long haul. That may not be dramatic news, but it is good news for all of us.
Prayer: Lord, help us wait for you by being faithful in our family life, at work, in this community and in the church which you have entrusted to us now. Amen
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