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We\u00a0<\/span>heard<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0the words of the Lord Jesus about the end of the world, about the signs of the last days. You say to yourself, nothing like that is happening yet; we can be calm; we don’t have to deal with eternity or the Lord God. After all, if it is going to happen, it won’t happen in a minute, but there will be enough time to put things in order. But with such an expression, such or similar reasoning, you escape the Lord God. You must have seen how a hare runs from a hunter to hide in its den.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Similarly, the human soul often tries to crawl into a lair, or, better said, it has a choice of five lairs: the inside of a person, sex, science, nature, and humanism. There are also five substitutes with which a person replaces God so he does not have to come into contact with him. The first replacement is the inside of a person. A person, tired of life, hopes that by diving into himself, some new secret about himself will appear and that it will save his life.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Today’s man is no longer like the people who lived in the three-dimensional world.\u00a0<\/span>They believed<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0that heaven is above, hell is below, and the earth between them is a vestibule in which a person is for a specific time to say yes or no to eternal salvation. But over the centuries, people lost religious truths, morals declined, and people stopped considering themselves as inhabitants of the three-dimensional world. They limited their life to only one dimension: a house or apartment on this earth. And thanks to progress, evolution, and science, they feel that they can be gods on this earth and that paradise can be created here. However, wars, depression, and fears of other threats came into play, which robbed a man of hope about the earth. At the same time, the man had already managed to lose hope in heaven. As a result, he began to withdraw more and more into himself. This is where false scientists try to restore the three-dimensional world, but they place it inside man. Instead of heaven, earth, and hell, they speak of conscience, consciousness, and animal instincts and claim that if man penetrates these depths, he can gain energy and strength from there to bring peace and salvation to the world. Some have tried but ended up unsuccessful because when a person is closed in on himself, he is in bad company. He wanted to silence God, so he ended up in great misery.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

The second substitute that man chooses for God, or the second escape route, is sex. True love binds one to another permanently in fidelity and is unchangeable. However, erotic pleasure, if it becomes the goal, leads to promiscuity, and a person likes the other person only as long as he is the source of his joy. This sin tempts a person the most because other sins do not promise to cure us of loneliness and emptiness, as this sin promises at first glance. But the body is finite, and the soul is infinite. We can satisfy the solitude of the body but not the soul’s aspirations. This disproportion causes sadness and disappointment, and one sees that the escape is stupid. So <\/span>he<\/span> escapes and turns to science. Science cannot fully satisfy man’s hunger because the scientist is an observer of nature, its describer and chronicler, and the soul remains unsatisfied again because the language of nature is not the language of the heart<\/span>, and even<\/span> the freshest knowledge does not satisfy man permanently.<\/span><\/h2>\n

In<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0more than science, study, and research, man escapes from God and into nature. He wants to hide in it like the first people. He wants to change the environment and lifestyle. He had already put a considerable speed on him. But God is faster than our wings, and nature cannot be misused against God because God created all things in nature, and so they remain faithful to God, and with their help, man cannot escape from Him. When a man has become disappointed in the pleasures of the senses and has not found lasting happiness through them, he can still seek satisfaction without God in humanism, which proclaims that if we work diligently for the brotherhood of man, we need not acknowledge the fatherhood of God. However, it was forgotten that we came from God and still belong to him and that it is impossible to build a brotherhood of people if they do not have <\/span>a common<\/span> Father. After these five substitutes and five ways of escape, man sees that he has suffered defeat and suddenly faces three new situations: the feeling of emptiness, later the fear of the cross, and finally, the final clinging to his challenge to love.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Discord<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0can be caused by physical loneliness when we have lost a beloved wife, husband, or relative, it can be a moral emptiness that we feel when we feel guilty, or it can be mental that we have caused by living a mediocre life so far. Thus, a person experiences emptiness. If at such a moment he realizes that only God can fill it, and if after all this he admits that after all, if God exists, he can be tried and experienced, he has taken the first step on the way to him, to eternity, because eternity, that is God. Once he has recognized this, he can get the fear of the cross, the fear that when he went after God, he has to carry out Jesus’ call: “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross every day and follow me” (Lk 9, 23). You often hear: How can God allow this? However, the one who sincerely went towards God gradually realizes that no pain or sacrifice is unnecessary. God has never closed a door; if he did, he would open a window. He never created a void, and if he did, to fill it. Put out your hand as if you wanted to hug your neighbor. What do you see under your hand? Shadow. Suffering, crosses, hardships, and sorrows are only the shadow of his hand, outstretched to embrace.<\/span><\/h2>\n

When<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0a person understands and accepts this, he reaches the third situation, the level of God’s love. God’s love is like the sun<\/span>, its<\/span> rays can be felt all around. Some don’t want to admit it. Imagine if there were only blind people and only three sighted people worldwide. For them to see, and no one else could become a severe problem for a group of psychologists. They would probably start by saying that if they are blind, then everyone must be blind. If the three seers claimed that we see the sun and all things under the sun – psychologists would call it a delusion because belief in the sun belongs to Persian mythology. Other psychologists from the world of the blind would say that the sighted suffer from a complex based on a morbid desire for light. And this is the behavior of those who say that God’s love is a myth, that God’s love is a superstition. Do you know what the scriptures say about that? He says: “Try and see for yourself how good the Lord is!” If the belief in God and the experience of God were a pure illusion, an invention, it would not move people to sacrifices, purity of morals, or humility, as it has been until now during the twenty centuries. And there are people among us who have tasted both worlds, both lives, escape and return. These are converts and penitents. They have known the anguish of conscience, disappointment, and<\/span> defeat, and now they see the peace of a good conscience; they know how wonderful it is to be in God’s love.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Now<\/span><\/strong>, brothers and sisters, lift your hearts! Are you looking for comfort? This is because you are in an emptiness that only God can fill. Because only God is the love that completely satisfies a person. It is love, and love is what each of us needs. Let us hold fast to this love, to God. If we live in the state of God’s love, then when the great tribulation comes, when the sun darkens in our life when evening sets in, and not even the moon gives its shine, when all the stars we admired fall when God calls his elect from four corners of the world, we will be able to say the words that St. Karol Borromeo, when he was playing billiards and was asked what he would do if he learned that he would die shortly. He replied, “I would finish this game.” We, too, will be able to say that we will finish the present moment, finish our part of life, because we are in God’s plane, in the plane of his love; we don’t have to run anywhere; we are always with him. We count on it now; we always count on <\/span>it,<\/span> we count on eternity, and<\/span> we live by it, so nothing surprises us, not even death.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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