Tumbling Down Lk. 21:5-19
The Temple was the most magnificent building in the ancient world.
Made of the cedars of Lebanon;
gold and ivory;
Marble and stone and jewels.
With votive lamps burning brightly throughout.
There was nothing like it.
And Jesus tells the people;
“Look around you!”
The day will come when there will not be a single stone left upon another.”
Look around!
At this beautiful church.
The day will come when not a stone will be left upon another.
Look around!
The day will come when everything you have worked for will come tumbling down.
Look around, For this world and everything in it will pass away.
And a new world will come when Christ returns in all His glory.
So what are we to do?
Just sit around and wait for it all to come tumbling down?
No one knows when the end will come
So St. Paul tells us to work quietly until then;
By earning the food we eat
And not being concerned with what others are doing.
So that when the Lord comes
He will find us not being busy bodies;
But instead busy doing His Most Holy Will.
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