SIGNS
Luke 21: 25-26,
29-31
Road signs have been around as long as humans have been navigating
through ancient pathways. Yet, recently I
found myself stumped by them during a driver's license renewal test. I had reviewed the various road signs prior
to the test, because I knew that some of them are not so easy to decipher. However,
what I did not anticipate was that my vision had changed. I couldn’t actually
see some of the signs that I had studied, as I viewed them through the testing
instrument. I needed stronger glasses to see the signs.
Our text seeks to provide the lenses we need to discern the
signs that will precede the coming of the Son of Man, and His kingdom. When
we see a radical reordering of the cosmos and unprecedented changes in nature, these are our ‘road signs’, pointing to the
One who is coming, so that the lion can lie with the lamb.
Natural disasters
often cause us to pause and wonder, ‘where is God in this’? The stronger glasses given to us in this text,
help us to see these as smaller signs, precursors of the road signs that will
herald our coming King.
And so in this week of preparation, we pray with our eyes
open, for the signs of His coming already in our midst.
Prayer : Lord may
your kingdom come, and may your will be done on earth, in us, as it is in
heaven. And open our eyes to see it. Amen
THE REVEREND JOANNE BROWNE JENNINGS
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