Mark 13-16
It’s easy for me to get caught up in the stress of dire predictions about famine, war, and disaster. Everywhere I turn it seems that the world is coming to an end. There is news of war, global warming, ecological disasters, extreme poverty, crime, and well the list goes on and on. I get depressed thinking about how messed up the world is and then I read this first chapter and I think maybe the world is ending. I have known friends that are obsessed with trying to figure out which of the current events is most related to the end times and what exactly the seventy sevens are and how close the temple is to being rebuilt. But I believe that our challenge is to not get caught up in that conversation, after all Jesus says no one will know when that time is, but rather to focus on what he tells us to do…watch. At the end of chapter 13 he gives us the example of servants left to watch the house of their master. I think of what he would want them to do, keep up the place, take care of his family, farm, animals, business, and not to get too comfortable. This isn’t their home they are just entrusted with it for a time. Remember what started the conversation in the beginning of the chapter? One of his disciples was marveling at how amazing the buildings were around him. I do the same thing. I find security and comfort in the man made things around me every day. I forget that my purpose is not to build my kingdom here on Earth, but instead to be about the business of the owner of the house. That’s my challenge every day. To not get too comfortable, to not receive my identity and security from my possessions, and to remember that I have a master and he is coming back.
Luke
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