Tuesday, April 16, 2019

* A STARTLING SIGN OF OUR TIME


Notre Dame is the most famous church in the world.  The only other that comes close in world fame is St. Peter’s at the Vatican.  I remember staying a block or two from Notre Dame, walking by it several times, going to it to visit.  It really is on a little island in the middle of the Seine. 

Notre Dame.  The church is history!  Before Shakespeare, before Voltaire, before John Newton or the original Queen Elizabeth, before Robin Hood, before North America and the United States were even a speck in any European’s mind, before Republicans or Democrats or George Washington.

Notre Dame survived the French Revolution, World War I, World War II, and countless other things over 850 years.  Now a horrible fire has greatly damaged this iconic church.  It could not survive our day – this time of extraordinary immorality, massive deception, widespread falling away from God.  If you will permit this metaphor, I expect this grand church could no longer endure being there, in the midst of Paris, in the midst of France, in the midst of Europe. 

It has been said by many that France and Europe are in a post-Christian era.  That’s just another way for saying godless.  Europe had moved that way ahead of the United States, although much of American popular culture and society is deep into that now.  Surely all believers can see the extraordinary and dramatic symbolism of this fire at Notre Dame.

Yes of course Notre Dame was a symbol of France.  But more importantly it was a symbol of Christianity.  A great church, built to the glory of God by artisans over decades and decades at a time when there were no electricity, no cars, no spaceships, no Internet, no computers.  Yes, I know – some French billionaires have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars and the French president is determined to rebuild.  Really?  Will that ever happen?  Are there enough artisans on earth like the ones who built this great cathedral to replicate its craftsmanship?  Or the time?  It took nearly two centuries to build this church originally.  If you have not seen it or one of the few buildings on earth like this, you may not understand the astounding quality of the detail and art.  And the time and skill it took to create it.  People dedicated their lives to building a church they would never see finished, again all to the glory of God.

This fire surely is a Sign of our Time, of where we are.  I wish the French President would dedicate his and his country’s efforts to rebuilding their faith in and dedication to God.  But that is not the time we are living in, is it? 

And, as we know, the return of Jesus is ever so imminent.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(April 2019)
Copyright © 2019 by John Newlin

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