Our correct orientation in time. Know your place in your time.

When talking to the younger ones, the elders sigh: It wasn’t like that in our time. Now is the wrong time. A person’s most incredible wisdom is to live honestly and responsibly. We cannot change what happened yesterday; we try to learn from it. And we don’t have to worry about what will happen tomorrow when we experience what we are experiencing now as we have.

The Lord Jesus tells us: “How is it that you do not know how to judge the present time? Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is just?” (Luke 12:56). The Lord Jesus called us to this world in these circumstances. He would have taken care of it if he had wanted us to live in the past or the future. From this, you can also sense the wrong teaching of some religions about reincarnation. But about that in another place. Old age, illness, and increasing years are signs of the times the meeting with God is approaching. True, we do not want to remember this. The Lord Jesus said: “..Hypocrites, you can judge the appearance of heaven and earth. How is it that you do not know how to judge the present time? Why do you not judge for yourselves what is just?” (Luke 12:56). These words speak of our frequent irresponsibility towards God’s things. We care about transient things but not about eternal things. And yet eternal things cannot be put off. Jesus points out this to us in the parable of the journey with the adversary to court. The debtor is sued in court because he does not want to pay. The only option is to use the road to court and get it sorted out on the way because it is sure that he will lose the court case and find himself in jail until he pays the debt to the last penny. The parable’s meaning is that we are all debtors, and the one who invites us to the court to repay the debt is Jesus Christ. In this context, God is the judge. God gives us the last opportunity to take advantage of the seriousness of the present hour and cope with the offer of the Lord Jesus to live for him and with him. Our judgment is approaching, so it is necessary to act quickly while we are still on the road, that is, here on earth. Otherwise, we risk imprisonment.

What is the sign of our times? What does God ask of us in this hour?  The life we ​​have entered is unparalleled in human history. Excellent scientific and technical progress brings difficulties that were unknown in the past. Today, we often talk about ecology, the pollution of our planet, and not only the land, that trees are drying up, barrenness is increasing, and the desert is growing, but we are infesting our rivers, oceans, and seas. The air is unbreathable. Scientists discovered the ozone hole, which causes the temperature in the air to rise, the so-called greenhouse model, and one more essential thing: man has lost not only his face and becomes a stranger to each other, but he has also lost a view of his soul, he has stopped caring about the most important thing: What am I in the world for?

That’s why this gospel sounds the alarm so that we use all our abilities given so that now, and not tomorrow, we can recognize what God asks and wants from us in the first place. Time and difficulties remind us to think about our future and our death.