Taken or left?
Isaiah 2.1-5 ; Matthew 24.36-44 “O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.” Take it or leave it. I suspect we’ve all had offers like that. But the Gospel reading this morning asks us a harder question – taken or left, which will we be? “Two will be in the field, one will be taken and one will be left. Two will be grinding meal together, one will be taken and one will be left.” If we look a little harder at the passage, it’s not even abundantly clear which I want to be, taken or left. When the secret police come knocking, it is clear that you want to be left. There are Christians and others in the world today who fear the knock at the door. They desperately want to be left. But when you live in the midst of war and poverty, you want to be taken to another, better place. There are many in the world today, not least the many refugees, who long to be taken more than anything else. The hope and the longing of the refugee