To live in the presence of God. What we should not forget?

It is interesting to follow anonymous people from your surroundings. What can be read from faces, hand movements, body posture, steps… Even more from what they talk about, how, what they talk about most often… Even more about what is their life’s priority, why they live… 

Today, writing horoscopes, creating various predictions, answers to a person’s activities, their condition, physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional… Many people are interested in the weather tomorrow before going to bed and in various burdens. On the organism, different bio predictions… Books explaining dreams, about arrangement, zodiacs, books…, …books that offer guaranteed instructions for solving all kinds of difficulties and other books provide the creation of human imagination based on “science,” maybe buy today in various bookstores, stands, or kiosks. Advertising agencies offer courses, meetings, and instructions for a successful life. Exceptional healers with extraordinary abilities are appearing… There is a wave of movements, communities, and churches that claim to be able to mediate and guarantee what people dream about and what they wish for, without effort, sacrifices, and only for a reasonable fee. And reactions to these and similar activities? After completing them, the psyche is even worse; the condition is worse, the wallet is empty, disappointed, and a feeling of greater emptiness; the subsequent condition is much worse than at the beginning. The question arises: why? There are many answers. They agree on one thing. They bet on the wrong value. They bypassed God.

Jesus tells us clearly and emphatically: “He who has received much, much will be required of him…” (Lk 12:48). Jesus encourages, leads, directs, directs, and takes care of his “little flock,” the Church. We know that the Lord Jesus always fulfills the will of the heavenly Father. He rightly requires his people to be vigilant. We are taught about the responsibility for knowing God’s will. To live in the presence of God. Today’s gospel is a challenge for us – to listen. To listen to our God, who has a kingdom prepared for us, to which entrance cannot be bought, but to which entrance is ensured by bags that do not rub, where the thief does not get and where the moth does not destroy.

In today’s society, both the economic, cultural, political, and sports fields, the principle is more and more valid: to be vigilant, to be alert, to be on the lookout if we want to prove something, to succeed, to gain…, the more to be awake means for lasting values, eternal. In our time, it is more and more often talked about as apocalyptic. We have signs that call us to be vigilant. Man’s life is genuinely waiting for our Lord. Waiting must not become inactivity, doing nothing, or dead immobility. Christ – our Judge, has the right to come at any time.