This date is time to remember the year marked on the calendar of God for man’s attention to be drawn to him as never before. Gone are the days of yesteryear with the religious and pious attitudes of goodness which proclaimed man’s holiness. “Look at me,” He seems to say as he puts forth his hand upon the church door to open it wide for all to witness the announcement of his presence.
Yet there is one who has been kept in the shadows, awaiting the announcement of his arrival within the heart of man where the Lord truly means to dwell. The edifice of beauty that replicates and reflects the saints and martyrs of long ago seem as cold as the plaster by which they are made. For in truth the church, meaning here the building of mortar and stone, created saints of their own making determined by the judgement of man’s goodness. The days have turned into months, then years of man’s hypocrisy, and has led him to now, to today, his future promised by the past dictated by his chosen path he now finds himself where he is today. Just where is it that he finds himself? He finds himself nowhere, for he has lost the way of life even as he struggled, sweat his blood and tears to achieve, he has finally come to stand still and survey all that he has accomplished and acquired of life.
As he surveys his holdings, he finds they are like dust crumbling in his hands, for he has accomplished nothing of eternal value and all about him is sinking sand. Is life after all just one big deception, a game played to the finish to find there is no pot of gold at all? Who has devised such a horrible trick upon the man? Who could be so devious as to play him a fool? Who? No one but you. You have deceived yourself by the choices you made all through your life’s journey. You have neglected to remember that you were created for a higher purpose than the choices of your own comfort and satisfaction. You were created by God, your Father who intended great and wonderful purposes for you to enjoy of the gift of life. Your life is the greatest gift bestowed by the love of God. He gave it to you freely and sent you into the world with his heart filled with love, hoping, wishing, wanting you to acknowledge your ancestral birth, your inheritance in his house, and to use your life with all of its riches in him to inhabit the earth reflecting his presence within the seed of your birth thereby maturing in the fullness of who you were created to be, and coming at the end of your lifetime to return to him bringing him many gifts, the hearts of all those you spent your life in investing and building for the kingdom of God. This is your reward, now you can look around you and see all the riches and wealth you have attained by choosing all the right paths of life as directed by the spirit of the living God. Now you can return home and claim the greatest gift of all; the pure love of God your Father forever being with him in eternity.