“You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near.”
Our reading from the Letter to the Romans this week is a call to alertness and action, to take up the practice of our faith with the focus and vigor of a promised new beginning. “Salvation is nearer to us now” because the God of our Salvation approaches. Jesus is coming, again. It is a matter of the great urgency and greater hope.