I am drafting this waiting on the Heath outside highfield for the Lower School team coach to get back from Kimbolton. No 1 son wants to know 'how long does it take for a Lower School match?'
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None of us like to wait. Maybe thats why so many people want to claim that the waiting for the second coming is nearly over. Today someone was expecting the rapture. It has now turned 6pm and I can report Haileybury is still here. I seem to remember that when I was a boy someone predicted the end of the world in the middle of what was for me a French lesson. French lessons sometimes felt like the end of the world, but we went on to maths or whatever it was next.
Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour. Only the Father knows. This does not mean that we should not care about the end of the world, but that on the contrary we should be ready at any moment.
That is really what makes setting a date so dangerous. It is not so much that people are led astray to think it may be soon. It is rather that looking to some man made date in the near future they may miss being ready for the advent when it comes. You do not know the day nor the hour.
Here is the coach!
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| The coach arrives at last - just gone 7pm |
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