Earthquakes as the Pope Meets Putin

The earthquake that rocked California this week reminded us that our whole environment can change so quickly and unexpectedly. There is something about our psyche that expects things to continue as we have always known them to be. Something that echos the words of 2 Peter 3:4 which says, "Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” Earthquakes are like that, even though humans may theoretically expect them, they don’t expect their worlds to be rocked and changed in the way they can be when these types of things happen. In an earthquake suddenly everything is moving, nothing is stable and everything is changing. We may theoretically expect the coming of Jesus Christ, but do we live that way everyday? Naturally we are more likely to think, “Where is the promise of his coming?”