Tuesday in the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time
The disciples asked Jesus, “When will these things happen?” Cardinal Newman writes, “Judging by Scripture you would ever be expecting Christ. Judging by the world, you would never expect him.”1 Why is that?
A comparison may help us understand this. Children in grade school think it will never end. The years drag on and on. But when old people look back on the decades that have passed, it seems like the blink of an eye. From an earthly point of view, we have been waiting for the Second Coming of Christ for centuries. It could be hundreds and hundreds of years before it happens. But from God’s point of view the centuries are but the blink of an eye.
Scripture is God’s point of view: From creation to the end of the world is no time at all. By faith we share in God’s knowledge of what has been, what is, and what is to come. May our faith remain strong so that wickedness does not multiply in our hearts, so that our love does not grow cold.