These walls will be destroyed - Mark 13-14

We just boat a new boat (new to us) and I was admiring it they other day. I was thinking of how big it is compared to our old boat (we live on it most of the year) and that it was designed in such a great way. Then I read Mark 13:1-2 this morning. I discovered that the disciples, as well, admired material things. They commented to Jesus at how wonderful the Temple looked. They admired the architecture. They thought the stones looked good on top of one another. Jesus, however, quickly gives them the reality of what was going to happen with that Temple and what was going to happen after that. Jesus puts these comments in perspective. In the backdrop of what is going to happen in the future at Christ's return the fine built temple has little to offer. Same with my boat. The shinny new things we admire will be nothing when Christ returns. We can all be turned away from Christ's agenda by shinny new things. We all think about these temporial things as though we had them forever. God is the only thing forever. We ought not, like the disciples, even look at the buildings people worship in as having some significant right of our admiration. Only Christ can and should deserve our praise and admiration. Let's not get carried away by stone, metal, fiberglass, wood, vinyl, chrome, or plastic. Let's focus on the person of Jesus Christ and rejoice in His coming again.