In today’s Gospel, Jesus quotes two popular events from the Old Testament, the flood of Noah's day (Gen. 6:7), and the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 6:19). Jesus used these two events to make them
possible as important comparisons for the coming of the Son of man. "So it
shall be in the day, where the son of man shall make himself known" (Lk.
17:30). Here, Jesus made it clear that when the son of man express himself
later, in a situation where humans are living a normal life, human activities
go on as usual. There's no insulation nor lockdown like it is happening right
now. People go about their lives; Eating, drinking, buying and selling,
planting and building, even mating and mating), continued to be normal, with no
special treatment at the time leading up to the coming of the son of man.
Yet, it is here that human concerns are often not
ready for the coming of Jesus because there is no early warning. As in the days
of Noah and Lot, most people made fun of both Noah and Lot, who were busy
building an ark and invited children and families out of Sodom. They're even
considered insane and paranoid. In our society today, people who are trying to
obey a health protocol because of the Covid19 pandemic and often considered funny,
ridiculous. Many are fall not in sore straits, but in normal life. Thus, Jesus
came at the time when life is walking normally, perhaps, even when we do not
“expect” him to come just for now, when life's normality "lulled "men
into ruin, as did many around Noah and a Lot of old. We know, that the Son of
man will come suddenly, unannounced, without warning. However, we have been
warned to prepare ourselves, to be watchful, and not to be lulled into a false
spiritual or drought of spiritual life. Are we among those brought (to
salvation) or left behind in destruction?
By Sr. Maria Venidora, SND.
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