Evening: Psalms 91, 92; Luke 21:5-19
The predictions Jesus makes about the cost of discipleship sound remote from our domesticated Church. But this week’s dire predictions from scientists sound as apocalyptic as any of Jesus’s predictions. Arctic permafrost is melting far more rapidly than expected. Our way of life is seriously threatened. Surely Christians are called to respond, as earth’s stewards, with decisive action. Some may criticize, even persecute, those who confront this disaster in the making. But Jesus encourages endurance ... “By your endurance you will gain your souls.” He doesn’t mean our ‘eternal souls’ so much as our lives in all their rich vitality.
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