The Present
Everyday we acquire information from news, books, magazines, newspapers, and television. For many years it has been common to see that the sensationalist style of the read press is a good business because most people like to see scandals uncovered whose protagonists are famous people. Now more than ever bad information travels quickly on cell phones. Bad subjects are very easy to find, even more so when the enemy of God handles the situation. Christendom is not alien and yields to be tempted by information that does not build or teach.
Time seems to run very fast, even though all our watches have the same time. The truth is that we live accelerated lives in a society that has lost its calm and runs out of control. We have reached a spiritual state where it becomes very difficult to be calm or to have the possibility of a retreat to meditate. Most new generations want to go faster and faster, with cars that can reach high speeds in a few seconds, instant phones with many distractions, computers with a lot of memory and speed etc. It is as if the present did not exist or matter. No one stops to thinks about their relationship with God and with others, because they are convinced that they have no time available at all.
In spite of everything, let go of the accelerator to enjoy life more in communion with the Lord, without losing ourselves in the nostalgia of the past (which has not always been better) and looking to tomorrow with optimism, caution and thanks to God. We can find joy in knowing where we are going. “For he says, ‘In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.’” (2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV)
The gospel is the offer of salvation and the present time is the appropriate time to accept such an offer. Tomorrow does not belong to us because we do not know what awaits us in the world. Now we enjoy a day of grace; then be careful not to reject it. “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He now reconciles in his body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him.” (Colossians 1:21-22 ESV.)
May God bless you.
