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On the History Channel I really enjoyed watching - Life After People. I was fascinated by how time and nature slowly deconstructs everything we have constructed. When people are no longer around to maintain structures or build new buildings - time takes its toll on our grand achievements. Our great cities and their great architecture will slowly revert back to nature. It may take 10.000 years before you would not be able to recognize a cityscape, but the change would be complete. All the materials we use to build cities would revert back to the earth, courtesy of the weather, plants, animals, insects and the greatest leveler of them all - time.Jesus is speaking prophetically about the temple. It was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E. Not one stone was left on top of the other. The only remnant of the temple remaining is the western retaining wall - The Wailing Wall. We are fragile creatures and the work of our hands, while we are around, endures. But the work of our hands ultimately succumbs to time. So what is eternal?
1 John 5:11b - 12a; God give us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life. John 3:14; And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. John 3:16; For God so lived the world that he gave his only Son, So that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. John 11:25-27; Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world." Jesus, the Logos the Word of God incarnate is eternal and he extends the offer to us, to join Him in eternal life in the Kingdom of God. The world and all our creations may come crashing down around our ears, but Jesus transcends our frail physical world and extends to us a world that is timeless, eternal, everlasting. Jesus asks us the same question he asks Martha: “Do you believe this?” The thin frail thread of faith is all that links us to this promise. Even though it is thin and fragile, it is enough to secure the promise Jesus offers us. We believe Jesus is the Christ, our messiah who comes to save us and offer us eternal live. As Martin Luther would say: “This is most certainly true.”
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We Pray: Gracious God, the thin thread of faith is all that we have which links us to the promises of Jesus. Even though we may have doubts, this does not mean we lack faith. Help us to gain understanding of your Word to us through faith. Help nurture and strengthen this thread. Help us to grow deep in our faith, confident of the Word Jesus gives to us. In Your Holy Name we pray. Amen.
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