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Revelation 22:20
The one who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am
coming soon.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
With
eager expectation
The prophet, John of Patmos, was surely wrong … and
always right.
He expected the immanent return of our Lord Jesus to
call down the curtain on human history and make all things new. But it did not
happen.
History wends its weary way with no end in sight, and still
we pray “Come Lord Jesus,” just like those who first received the book of Revelation.
We do so because our Lord is always coming to us.
God is love and love always comes, seeking to touch
and grace and walk with the beloved. The Lord Jesus is always near to accompany
us throughout our journey. We experience the return of Christ each time we open
our heart to him in prayer and extend our hands to receive him in the
sacrament.
He comes each time we cry out from the depth of our
longing for the Lord to heal the hunger and hurts and hatreds of our world,
each time we plead for him to come to the injustice and destruction that destroys
the lives of millions.
Jesus is always coming near because he is
love and love needs to give itself away.
So we do not fall asleep or into apathy. We do not live
in doubt or sorrow but with eager expectation, knowing our Lord comes not only
at the end of time, but here, now, today,
to bless us with the presence of the Love for which our hearts long.
Pr.
David L. Miller
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