5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
One thing we must all come to terms with in life is the impermanence of all human-made things. To accept this is to enjoy them, to work for their improvement and preservation as best we can -- and if we should. But to not be able to accept this leads us to the worship of idols and deep grief when things we thought would last forever end up not even lasting through our own lifetime.
This is a hard truth to accept. Case in point is Jesus, who after saying the Temple was not going to last forever was soon after killed. We just can't stand for someone to tell us our Temple won't last forever -- we have put too much into it to hear that.
And that is just the point. We must not put too much of ourselves into any Temple. For every Temple will ultimately disappoint us.
When the Temple was about to fall 30 years later, another truth teller the Apostle Paul came with a word of consolation to the people:
"For we know that surely this our bodily house that is in The Earth will be destroyed; but there is a building for us that is from God, a house which is not by the work of hands, in Heaven for eternity."
Surely we do know that all our earthly houses will be destroyed and that as Jesus said, "even heaven and earth will pass away" but God's eternal promises will remain; and when all is past they will be enough. More than enough.
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