The Sharing Series: Last Day

December 31, 2014 at 8:59pm

Last day of 2014. Technically, this is just another day. And so is tomorrow.

Many people would spend New Year's Eve simply doing things: watching the night, reflecting upon the year, or counting down to the new year. It's a shame that I am unavailable to take part much of these due to circumstances.

Nevertheless, it allows much time and space for thoughts and reflection, and simply a time to cherish and ponder.

Usually, New Year's Eve provides more hype than what it suppose to be an eve of. You see celebratory events on New Year's Eve but not on New Year's Day. Perhaps people are overhung from the celebrations the night before.

Usually the phrase "last day" or its plural form signifies the end of a time period. Obviously today we would merely experience the end of 365 days within the Gregorian year of 2014; it does not indicate the end of unpleasant series of events although we would hope that is the case.

The actual end of all evil, in a very quirky irony, must go through a time period known as "the last days" (2 Tim 3:1). These "last days" are the end of the current world as we know it, but by no means having evilness to cease: in fact, the pace of rampantness accelerates (1 John 2:18, Matthew 24:23, 2 Tim 3:1-5). The end of these "last days" is when Christ returns for ultimate judgement, and the end result would be the new heaven and earth. And on that ''New" day, there will be no end of celebratory praise, because there's no more night to end with (Rev 22:5).

And that is one time that the Day itself matters more than the Eve.