As I listened to my beloved football team, I silently barracked hard. My boys overcame a deficit and kicked away to a fabulous victory. Well earned. My team has a reputation for being comeback kings.
Enjoying a touch of spring in the air, I thought about how comebacks can inspire us. It is just as the word of God expresses in this verse: They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. I agree that not one of us knows when Jesus will be our comeback king. But as a Christian, I can be inspired by this promise of magnificent glory to come. So can any Christian.
Jesus asks each of us to love God and each other. If we smile, pray, and speak in peace, we can all act like talking Bibles daily. This is the greatest gift we can give each other: to be examples of making our faith accessible to all we meet.
Smiling and praying are important jobs. So are things such as not rising to bait and catastrophizing minor non-issues. Like my team, which aims to play on, we can all hope to pray on.
We hope to see Jesus, our comeback King, returning in all His great glory. In the meantime, we can keep praying to be His living word. We are all here for such a short while, so let’s make the most of our God-given days and enjoy happy times.
Let’s celebrate together the spiritual blessings of Jesus, our comeback King. Pray on.
Julie Grenness is a former teacher and catechist who is now a writer of many online articles, mainly for baby boomers. She is also a caregiver for a geriatric and a part-time tutor and mentor of young Australians from many lands. She aims to be a woman of God and to walk humbly in the path of Jesus.