If, as suggested in yesterday’s offering, there is impatience among Christ’s followers, a notion of “What have you done for us lately,” perhaps it arises from the years which have passed between now and the promise from Jesus that he would come again. 2 Peter 3 speaks of this very problem.
It seems that the Church in the first century had persons asking why it was taking so long. Peter warns that “the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.” We have no way of knowing when the visit with occur; there is even the suggestion that the arrival will come at the very time we least expect it.
The coming of Christ anticipated by the early Church and written about by Peter is the final coming; the event referred to as the “end of time.” They were looking for that great cataclysmic event at which all things will be handed over to God.
It is often suggested, that in looking for that one great, final event we miss many epiphanies along the way; that in our desire to see the one great arrival, we might be missing the visits of Christ which are perhaps less dramatic, but no less meaningful.
Pastor Hartsell’s sermon on Sunday spoke of Jeremiah’s response to the impending doom of Israel. He goes out and purchases of piece of land. The big picture is re-interpreted through the small, simple act. We might wait for the final arrival of Christ. We might better understand what that arrival looks like were we to notice the expressions of grace set before us each day.
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