Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

The Beginning of the End: It's time to watch for the final events

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Imagine you are planning to take the family out to dinner. You all have to wait for someone to get ready. Minute after minute passes. What can happen in that situation? It’s easy to focus on something else and even forget the original goal. Perhaps as you wait, you even fall asleep.

 

As we wait for Christ to return, as day after day passes, it can be easy to get distracted, to lose vigilance, to become spiritually drowsy. It’s the beginning of the end. Why does it have to take so long? 

 

God forbid that Christ should return and find us spiritually asleep! Today we are reminded that the time between Christ’s first and second coming is a time for watchfulness. Stay awake and alert, and be ready to greet your coming Savior!