Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 21:34

"But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:" — Luke 21:34 (ASV)

And so that day come upon you unawares.

All that you can see in this world, you are to regard as doomed to destruction. That destruction began, so to speak, when Jerusalem fell under the Roman sword. Everything earthly is doomed.

You are not living in your eternal mansions; instead, you are living a makeshift life. You are passing through a wilderness; you are pilgrims and sojourners. This is not your rest.

Do not grow to love this world or be preoccupied with it. Do not strike your roots into it; you are not to dwell here and live here always.

You are walking among shadows; regard them as such. Do not hug them to your bosom; do not feed your souls on them, lest, when that day comes—before whose arrival all these things will melt away—you will be filled with amazement and shame.