Keeping awake is about patience

Morning: Psalms 26, 28; Isaiah 5:13-17, 24-25; I Thessalonians 5:12-28

Evening: Psalms 36, 39; Amos 7:10-17; Luke 21:29-38

Jesus tells his followers to ‘keep awake’ because there are people, in every generation, who discredit faith … In Jesus’s time and now, they challenge: ‘Why follow Jesus?  It isn’t working!’  They choose to forget what followers of Jesus have patiently accomplished down the ages – the end of slavery, hospitals, schools, lives transformed.  It’s too easy to point just to the human failures.  So keep awake, urges Jesus … Keep awake to all the good that comes from his Way of being in the world.  Hold firm.  Be patient, and you will see the world transformed.