“The end of things may not be nigh.”

H,

We live in perilous times. We have always lived in perilous times. These signs and portents we are referencing right now have been part of the cycle of death and fear and disease that have characterized the world for centuries. There is nothing new under the sun, that old fable tells us.

We are always quick to find reasons to declare that the Lord is coming. Yet, no one knows the time or the hour. The signs will come and pass before that event. And the signs are in cycles. And a lot of people read them and look for dates to link to this great happening that every Christian waits for. They are universally and utterly wrong. Much damage has been done, not all Christian, in trying to divine the exact day the world ends.

Yet, the emphasis was never on the accuracy of the day but the quality of the life. It was about how we live not how we end. That is always the point. We have eternity in our hearts already. Why do we obsess over the external that we have no choice or control over and neglect the internal, where choice is required and in which we dwell in every day? It is like shouting for the sun to come out when you could just put on a candle or flip a light switch.

We are not here the solve the mysteries of the ways of God. We cannot resolve those depths. We are here to live in the water and experience the sun of His eternal will. The war outside and the pestilence and plague may rage, but it does not change the real law of the light: our hearts to do the right thing and to love in fullness. It is always the time for that.