Christian Reflection and Prayer

"So stay awake... if he comes unexpectedly,
he must not find you asleep" (Mark 13:35,36).

The pastor of a large urban parish did a TV series
called "The Kingdom of God." Each week on the
morning after the show aired he would visit sick
parishioners in the hospital. On one such visit,
he received an unusually enthusiastic greeting
from a man who had been hospitalized for weeks.
Said the patient, "You'll be glad to know that we
all watched your program last night. There was
only one TV available in the ward, so we had to
decide by majority vote what programs we would
watch. During your time-slot, it came down to
'The Kingdom of God,' or 'American Idol.' You
won by one vote." Said the pastor later, "I thought
to myself that when we can beat 'American Idol'
with 'The kingdom of God' at, last, we're headed
in the right direction!"

"Don't ask me about what was, but what is to
come," the Apostle Peter told the early Christians.
He was pointing them in the direction of the
coming again of Christ. We present day Christians,
if we are true to our calling, are pointing in the
same direction.

ARE YOU POINTING IN THE SAME DIRECTION?

(The Staff and editors of Sunday Sermons Online)