God's Invasion

I often think about what it will be like when Jesus comes again. My hope is that we, those that I love and all people who searched for God in this life, will join those living in heaven for eternity. My grandparents, others I've known and loved on earth who have died, all the saints I've come to know by reading about them, and all the angels will be there together in one place with the Holy Trinity.

C.S. Lewis, in his book Mere Christianity spoke about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at the end of Book 2. In reference to Jesus being "born behind enemy lines" as a baby and a Church used as a vehicle of the resistance to spread the Gospel, Lewis says, "Why is God landing in this enemy occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians think he is going to land in force. We do not know when, but we can guess why he is delaying. He wants to give us a chance of joining His side freely.

God will invade, but I wonder whether people who ask God openly to interfere directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does? When that happens it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade alright, but what is the good of saying you're on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else, something that never entered your head to conceive, comes crashing in? Something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left.

This time it will be God without disguise. Something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. That will not be the time for choosing. It will be the time we discover which side we truly have chosen whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment is the chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us this chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it."

If that doesn't make you reflect, correct, and choose rightly, I don't know what does!