Meditation

Meditation:
[Jesus:] At that time the sign of the Son of Man will
appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will
mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his
angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his
elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the
other.
-- Matthew 24:30,31 (NIV)

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Quotation:
Now, if our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie in this
world instead of in the eternal order, we shall find it
difficult to accept the New Testament teaching of the Second
Coming. In our eyes the job is not yet done, and such an
action would be, though we would not put it so, an
interference. But suppose our hope rests in the purpose of
God, then we safely leave the timing of the earthly experiment
to Him. Meanwhile we do what we were told to do--to be alert
and to work and to pray for the spread of His Kingdom.
... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), New Testament Christianity
[1956], chapt. v.
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