Wisdom today paints a beautiful picture of the creation of God. I can see the sunsets and the mountains and the oceans that display His beauty. I remember just yesterday driving to the gym later in the day than usual, and seeing the last whisper of the sunset over Whitestone Rd. It was inspiring as the light yellows and faded oranges and reds blended into darker blue and then darkness. Amazing.
Wisdom asks if some who see the ocean and think it is a god or the sun and believe it is a god, why since they have the capacity to contemplate the world and the forces, did they not see the creator. For as powerful is the seas, he is greater, as bright and warm and nurturing in the rays of the sun, he is greater. As beautiful as the mountains and sunsets are, he is greater and his blessings he pours upon us, more beautiful.
How did they miss Him? The psalm proclaims that the Heavens proclaim the Glory of God!
And then we step into the Gospel to find Jesus telling the disciples about the end time. How just as people were going about their day as if nothing was happening, when Noah stepping onboard his boat, they were all wiped off the face of the earth by floods. Or when Lot and his family left Sodom, those who lived there and stayed behind were destroyed. They didn’t see it coming. It was just a regular day.
So too, one day we will get up and make our coffee. Get dressed for work. Walk to our car and maybe at the moment we open the door, Jesus comes again into the world. And while some will be taken up, many will step into the car and begin to drive to work as if nothing happened at all. And our time will be over. Our opportunities to love and give and reach others, finished. We will not have time to step back into the house to tell our loved ones goodbye. No turning around now. No going to get our wallet we forgot or even people dear to us. Only Christ, will be our thoughts and desires on that day and moment.
Families will be split. Possessions will disappear like a dream we wake from and can hardly remember. All our world will seem like a distant place. In that instant for the faithful it is an end and a beginning.
Jesus calls us to live in his creation realizing that there will be a time when those we love, and places we hold on to, and things we cherish, will not join us in our new beginning. They may very well be taken with us, but our earthly ties will no longer be important to us. We will still love them and remember them. We will not lose our memories. But our life on earth will be over.
What will be most important, is God and his wonderful heavens and the joy of being with him. Nothing will compare to our love for him and desire to be near him.
So, our calling today is to remember what is important and what is passing and temporary. We love God above all. And love others as much as we love ourselves, so we work to help them be with us in heaven. For if there is regret for those who spend eternity in heaven it is that they were not able to bring others we love with us.
We should live as if at any moment this is our last minute here and the beginning of our eternal life in our real home. Our forever home.
Deacon Tony Pynes 
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