St. Paul tells us in Galatians that Jesus was born in the "fullness of time." Mark, in the gospel tells us that Jesus' preaching was centered on a new reality, "this is the time of fulfillment."
The one who is born in the fullness of time, who has the fullness of God within him now brings that fullness in time and offers it to us each day.
He doesn't wait for us to come to him. We do not encounter that fullness just in the church building or in a place of prayer. These places are meant to enrich that encounter. But as the gospel reveals that fullness that Jesus offers comes initially to the work place.
While Simon was casting his nets and while James and John were mending their nets, the fullness of time tapped them on the shoulder and called them forth. While they were doing their ordinary job, in ordinary time, that the fullness of time, this time of fulfillment, made himself present.
In the place of work, Jesus comes to offer this new reality, this new way of keeping time. The time clock that regulates the hours worked, now points to a new reality; with every tick and every tock the fullness calls us to change and to work unlike the rest; we are called to work as believers.
In our hands we no longer just make a living we now are called to make a life.
We work as believers in the gospel so that the gospel himself might be made present in and through us in the fulfillment of time.
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