2 Thess 2:1-3, 14-17 / Matthew 23:23-26
There are many things that we wish to know about the future.
We may wish to know what will happen in a couple of months' time, or in a year's time, or in ten years' time.
Yes, we may wish to know what the future is like but the fact is that life will slowly unfold before us moment by moment.
Still, we may wish to know how long more will we live on earth and when we will die.
For the Thessalonians in the 1st reading, they were wishing to know when the Lord Jesus will return.
So there was excitement as well as alarm by predictions and rumours and talk about the coming of the Day of the Lord.
But St. Paul tells them not to be deceived by any of these.
Rather he tells them to believe in the Good News and to stand firm and keep to the traditions.
What is important for them, as well as for us, is that Jesus and God the Father have given us love and comforted us with hope and strength to do good in everything we do and say.
So let us live every moment in love and do the good that the Lord Jesus wants of us and to place our hope of a glorious eternity with Him.