NOTES for Luk 21:33

Strange, is it not? We are used to thinking that heaven and earth, this whole world, the whole universe, are something real, something that can be seen and shown to others, something obviously existing. But words are ephemeral: they sounded, and then they are gone; they flew out and flew away. "Words, words, words..."

But Jesus, as always, turns everything upside down. A word, when it proceeds from God or from the God-man, is not ephemeral; it is more real than any material reality, because it was by the word that this world was brought into existence. The world is created and therefore is not eternal; it has a beginning and an end. But the word of God is not created, but begotten by the eternal God; it has an eternal nature, does not disappear, and does not remain fruitless.

Therefore, if we, who belong to the created world, are not to pass away together with it but enter eternal life, we must seek God's word, listen to it, receive it, and be permeated by it, becoming like Christ, the Word Incarnate.