Teaching and Learning:
Facing Life Without Worry
Luke 21:29-36
The Message
29-33He
told them a story. "Look at a fig tree. Any tree for that matter. When
the leaves begin to show, one look tells you that summer is right around
the corner. The same here—when you see these things happen, you know
God's kingdom is about here. Don't brush this off: I'm not just saying
this for some future generation, but for this one, too—these things will
happen. Sky and earth will wear out; my words won't wear out.
34-36"But be on your guard. Don't let the sharp edge of your expectation get dulled by parties and drinking and shopping. Otherwise, that Day is going to take you by complete surprise, spring on you suddenly like a trap, for it's going to come on everyone, everywhere, at once. So, whatever you do, don't go to sleep at the switch. Pray constantly that you will have the strength and wits to make it through everything that's coming and end up on your feet before the Son of Man.
34-36"But be on your guard. Don't let the sharp edge of your expectation get dulled by parties and drinking and shopping. Otherwise, that Day is going to take you by complete surprise, spring on you suddenly like a trap, for it's going to come on everyone, everywhere, at once. So, whatever you do, don't go to sleep at the switch. Pray constantly that you will have the strength and wits to make it through everything that's coming and end up on your feet before the Son of Man.
The advance of science as a preferred thought process has improved the human condition. God has provided a systematic way for us to discover more and more of his mystery. However, the presumption for evidence has displaced the value of observing God's hand in action. We have little written since Biblical times on a vernacular systematic method for observing God in action. We have in many cases poo pooed the mystery of God because we can find little empirical evidence.
Jesus pointed to nature, the fig tree using one of the strongest methods of proof in his time --argument from sign. The world is a sign of His mystery to be revealed to us in His Good Time. Look for God's hand in your life and in the lives of others. Look for God as life unfolds be fore you. Embrace the mystery that is God. All that needs to be revealed will appear clearly through the smoke of living.
Pray
to embrace the mystery that is God. Pray to open your minds to alternative ways of looking for God in common places in your life. Pray that you will see God in the life that unfolds around you.
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