Eclipse

There is a great deal of hype that has been building to see a rather unique event in the USA.  We are hearing weeks in advance of strategies for how to best view this Great American Eclipse.  Even though an eclipse occurs around twice a year, it is unusual in both its visibility across the US and you would have to wait a few years to be able to see another total eclipse. So the buildup and hype continues.  There are bus rides you can take, hotels are booked.  Traffic is supposed to be terrible in certain areas.  And of course there are the warnings to not look at the sun!  All of this because of an astrological occurrence.

This got me thinking about the coming of the Son of God.  No one hyped his coming.  Unless you were the mother and father, or a group of shepherds, you probably did not even hear about it.  There was no hype.  The most exciting thing was Magi coming two years later that got the King stirred up.  He had a fairly normal upbringing and in his adulthood people questioned if anything good could come from Nazareth.  He was unhyped.  Unpublicized.  And at the end of three years of ministry all the hype he had created got Him killed.

I wonder if we as Christians are excited about His return in the way we are excited to see an eclipse.  We know it is coming.  We know it could be today.  And yet what are we doing in our personal lives to prepare?   Most of us act as though nothing is happening at all.  Many of us fear, wondering perhaps if God is still in control.  But most assuredly He is bring about His perfect will, which involves every knee bowing and every tongue confessing.  So, if this is even more sure than our ability to see an eclipse, lets get excited about it!  Let's tell our neighbors, our friends, anyone who will listen that Jesus is coming back.

And you will not need a pair of special glasses to see Him!