SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th

Thinking Eternal

35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 

38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 

39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 

40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 

17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 

18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 

19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 

20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 

21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.