Yea, Thanksgiving Eve is here! Followed immediately by a blog about Christmas, not mine, but one that appeared in my e-mail just now. Can we enjoy this holiday first, please? It seems not, at least judging (or is that discretioning?) by the multitude of Black Friday ads I have received. Is the present so terrible that we must constantly look to the future? If people acted this way in Jesus' time, they would have asked about His kingdom before He had a chance to complete the cross and resurrection. Oh wait, they did.
As Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives teaching the disciples, they asked about the signs of His coming. Uh, isn't that Him sitting in front of you? We have this impatience about what we dread. We also have a desire to get past the present that God would have us enjoy, or at least learn from and grow faith. We like to look back at the past for signs of our glory or to whip the self with shame and regret. Maybe we are impatient to get past the present in order to have more past to look back upon. We look to the future while stumbling over the now.
Part of that is God's fault: He made a lot of really great prophecies about our future with Him. We have at least some excuse for looking ahead to that eternal tomorrow. We read prophecies in Isaiah about God's holy mountain, and in the Revelation about the all things new, and it sounds like where we want to be with Jesus right now. At least we are not like the unbelievers who must enjoy the present because that is all they have. The present is pretty terrible in many ways, but that part didn't come from God. The present, however, is not terrible in all ways. There are many things to enjoy on this day. Not the least of which is walking with our Savior who promised to be with us always. 'Be with' is a present and now sort of thing, one we can enjoy in the moment.
Have a pleasant walk with Jesus today,Bucky
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