Into the place of all these temporary things

Into the place of all these temporary things (temples, churches, Kingdoms) stands the power of God’s transforming love. This newness is not something that we are to just stand aside for though. We are a part of it. We are God’s agents of peace, of justice, of compassion and of hope. When we are faced with destruction our Christian task is neither despair nor jubilation. Faced with enemies, we love, faced with drought, we live in hope and care for each other, faced with poverty we shout ‘justice!’,  faced with environmental catastrophe, we acknowledge our sin and work to care for God’s world. And through all of this we rest in the power and certainty that, in the end, (who knows when?) God’s reign is permanent and true and above all these things. Let us go out in faith to live in hope.