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The real question is this: Am I seeing Jesus where Jesus is?  That question separates the sheep from the goats.

May we seek what is of greatest value and invest everything in it.

SolLuna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12/16 Be Watchful “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their…

In this Advent which points to a final Advent, we are reminded that our calling as earth-citizens and Kingdom citizens is to be wise and faithful stewards of God’s people and God’s stuff.

Life can change quickly. Things that seem so set for all time, can be disrupted, can tumble, and can disintegrate. Towns can be leveled by a storm. Mountains can explode in a volcano. Systems can be shaken to the core by the shifting sands of ideology.

You will not have to find him. He will find you and gather you.

“Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?   … So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people.”