My notes today on the Gospel Reading of Luke 12:32-40
Want to get to heaven.
Are you prepared for the journey to wherever it might be?
Simplify and re-center your life.
God is trying to get us to refocus our life here on earth through the teachings and the life of Jesus so that we will find the transition of life and death and ultimately to life everlasting to be far easier.
We are a culture stuck on death. We are afraid of death. We spend and posses to avoid any feeling that life has lifeless. We elect officials and use our time too often to give us the good life while God has been trying to give us the good life our whole life long. Not just our whole life long but throughout the history of humanity.
Where we are is nothing new. It’s what Jesus was dealing with when he was here on earth and what he faces as the Holy Spirit among us now. We are easily seduced by false gods that promise facades and thin veneers of the semblance of life. You can’t blame us. What they are selling and how they package it really looks good.
Unfortunately when we don’t get the high life or the life everlasting joy we seek in those products, lifestyle, politicians or whatever, we blame them. What Jesus is saying is that we are looking for the right thing in the wrong places. It’s us who keeps looking in the wrong places. So no sense in blaming ultimately any politician or any product for not living up to our expectations. God has had that experience with us for our lifetime. We haven’t lived up to God’s expectations. Which is fortunate that God is a forgiving, compassionate being. We are continually given the tools and the path to simplify and re-center. To focus and prepare on the reality of God’s realm rather than trying to gussy up the trappings of our own created realm.
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