Knowledge Has Increased

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel 12:4)

Summer mornings - cool and quiet (mostly) but it is two weeks until summer begins on the calendar. As usual, the seasons come without paying attention to man's calendar. Our knowledge has increased but we do not yet know everything. We do run to and fro in this world, but the time of the ned... Ned, who's Ned? No, the time of the end is close, but no sign says that it will happen this week or even this month even as the signs point to the return of our Lord coming at any moment.

It is a ticklish thing in the Christian faith that for 2,000 years we have lived in the end times with signs that give us reason to drop our tools and look up, while in the next moment having to bend down and pick up those tools to provide for family, friends, and ourselves through hard work because the anticipated return of Christ has not happened yet. Even the great apostle, Paul, struggled to teach his new churches that they had every reason to look up to see the arrival of our Lord, and at the same time they had work to do and to keep those hands busy.

Monday morning is always a good time to look up and yearn for the Lord's return, after all the other option is another week of work. Funny how that thought does not occur in quite the same way on a Friday. It helps to have work that does not make one feel like a soap bubble on the verge of popping at every moment of the working day, but all of us who believe in Christ long for His return. Those who enjoy their work look up at times too, just maybe not quite as longingly and as often as those who work in a tough job in which they feel the pain of the square peg hammered without mercy into that triangular hole. Ouch!

For all of us, working and retired, young and old, the return of Jesus will come quickly even in the blink of an eye...so get back to work because we're in this life until the end!

Your friend in Christ,
Bucky