There are those who subscribe to end of the world scenarios. Many such days of apocalypse have come and gone. In 4.5 billion years one is almost certainly guaranteed--not that we have to be concerned. Nor do I expect men in white robes blowing C-note trumpets to appear in the sky to announce God's final judgement. However we all face the inevitability of our own personal demise at a time and place we have no way of knowing. Today's lessons are about being prepared for that day. That is not to say that we should be like those former southern slaves who sat and waited for their freedom to arrive. In fact we are admonished to be found doing the Lord's work until that fateful day.
Such is Amos' message to us. We should not be seeking the apocalypse, we should just not be found wanting should it arrive. As the Psalmist assures the Lord will deliver the faithful and Our Epistle every good thing will come to those who died in the Lord.
The parable of the wedding feast admonishes the faithful to live their lives in faith that no harm can come to them but like Luther, even knowing that the world may end tomorrow planting that cherry tree today. We should never allow fear of tomorrow to paralyse us into inaction today. Whenever the Day of the Lord should arrive we should be found doing his work here on earth.
Such is Amos' message to us. We should not be seeking the apocalypse, we should just not be found wanting should it arrive. As the Psalmist assures the Lord will deliver the faithful and Our Epistle every good thing will come to those who died in the Lord.
The parable of the wedding feast admonishes the faithful to live their lives in faith that no harm can come to them but like Luther, even knowing that the world may end tomorrow planting that cherry tree today. We should never allow fear of tomorrow to paralyse us into inaction today. Whenever the Day of the Lord should arrive we should be found doing his work here on earth.
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