Today’s Reading:  Matthew 24:1-28 

Matt. 24:3 “As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

The end. Those words don’t sound good unless it’s “the end” to a bad movie or the end of something bad that has happened to us in life. There was a man was staying in a cottage in the Swiss Alps. Early one morning he heard what sounded like an earthquake. Hurriedly he got out of bed and ran to the front desk and asked if there was something wrong if the mountains were breaking up? He was scared. The man at the front desk explained, “Sir, we are on the west side of the mountain. As the sun comes up in the east, and the snow and ice expand as they begin to warm. The expansion causes a large crashing noise. It’s not the end of the world, it’s just the beginning of a new day.”

What some consider to be the end of the world is only be the start of something better for us who are in Christ.  John Piper writes: The center of Christianity is the coming of the Son of God into the world as a real man to destroy the works of the devil and create a new people for His own glory. The very heart of our faith is that He did this by obeying the law of God, dying for the sins of His people, rising victorious over death, ascending to God’s right hand with all His enemies under his feet. The second coming of Christ is the completion of His saving work. If you take it away, the whole fabric of His saving work unravels.

In days which can be hard and worldwide chaos in the form of wars, famines, earthquakes, etc spread. We must look forward to that day when Jesus returns in radiant splendour. We eagerly await the day He brings us into the perfect eternity He has prepared.

Reflection

How do you feel when you think about ‘the end’?