A Gameday Thought

This Morning, I pulled myself from yet another slumber with an excited anticipation.  Yes, college football has begun.  I dawned my Penn State blue and white jersey, pour a fresh cup of coffee into my Penn State cup, and checked the DVR, just to be sure that the game was set to record.  You know, just in case, for some unforeseeable reason I would need to leave the house just before game time.  For months now college football fans have been anticipating this day.  The pageantry, the bright colors, the jovial sounds of bands playing their team's fight song.   In just a few hours all this build up will overflow into realization.  Where would college football be without anticipation?  All we would have is realization, but no build up, gameday with no pre-game show, college scores with no college pick 'em.  It is the anticipation that makes gameday so special.   It is on this premise that an even greater anticipation arises, “Surely I am coming soon.”  And the Christian's anticipatory response is to say: "Amen. Come, Lord Jesus."  (Rev. 22:20)  How much greater is this event, the coming of the Lord Jesus?  It is unique, one of a kind, there will never be anything like it again.  Jesus came once before, but this 2nd advent brings with it the culmination of all human history.  Unlike college football, this great event is anticipated by Christians every Sunday morning, when the church congregates and rehearses what she will be doing for eternity, the worship of the Holy One.  With each week, the anticipation should build, but does it?  What if we did not anticipate?  What if this weekly meeting was not a preparatory rehearsal, but a blind obedience.  We anticipate because we desire to be prepared.  On gameday, my coffee is brewed, my jersey is clean, my chair is ready with a good view of the television.  However, if a grocery run were necessary, a quick unforeseeable event were to occur, I would still have my trusty DVR, I would not miss a thing.  An unanticipated event could not derail gameday.  However, in eternity there is no DVR.  When He comes, it is finished.  "Amen, Come Lord Jesus."