Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. -Matthew 24:35, NIV
We puny humans were born to die. We arrive to this Earth kicking and screaming, only to live amiss of our impending doom. Then we look at the blooming flowers in all their splendor as we ask ourselves who in their right mind would destroy something so precious and fragile. What we are oblivious, though, is to learn that we are so fragile, even more so than the flower. The flower can lose its petals in a second; all of our organs lose their purposes in a lifetime. The flower cannot speak; we speak and spit words like daggers. The flower looks beautiful inside and out, unlike us: we smile on the outside, yet burn in wrath and lust and horrible emotions within us.
No one wants to know about finishing something when we're in the top! That is preposterous! It attempts against our notions of humanity.
Sometimes, it's better to not know anything -”Ignorance is bliss”, they say- rather than know and do nothing about it. This is what the disciples felt every time the Master said a tease on the clues of the end. He said, “Do not be fooled”, and they were looking at each other with pokerfaces. He said, “Wars and rumors of Wars, and they were ready to whet their swords. He said, “There will be famines and earthquakes”, and they were already hungry and dizzy.
“Nation against nation...kingdom against kingdom...You will be persecuted...Many will be turn away...No one would survive--” In everyone's mind, Jesus knew they were begging Him to stop! It was too much information! Sensory OVERLOAD!!! DOUBT AND OVERLOAD!!! No one had to read faces to see the quasi-streaming tears of the disciples who were weary of their human condition. It wasn't fair! They had wifes and sons and daughters and houses! In any moment they could've gone back, but no; they had to know that they were born to die –burial's on Wednesday and the party's on Friday!
“Heaven and Earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”
And He saw the souls of His disciples...relieved, for His glory will never fade away.