TOMORROW WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF

2Cr 24,17-25; Ps 88; Mt 6,24-34
23 JUNE
When will our tomorrow be concerned with itself? When it is no longer ours, because it has been given by us to God, delivering ourselves to him according to his Word, his will and his Gospel. The younger son takes his future in his hands. He comes out very rich from the Father’s house and after a few days becomes very poor. God cannot worry about his son’s tomorrow because it is no longer his.

Then he said, “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any. Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.”‘ So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’ But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ Then the celebration began (Lk 15,11-24).

The son from the land of pigs, land in which the Father cannot worry about his tomorrow, returns to the house of the Father and his tomorrow returns to the hands of his Father. The Father can now worry about it. The world today is in the land of pigs. If it wants its God to worry about its tomorrow, it must return to the land of the Word, of the Gospel. It must leave the kingdom of Satan and enter the kingdom of Christ the Lord. God cannot enter the land of pigs. We know that Jesus had entered into it and was expelled by its inhabitants. There was no place for him in it.

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.

The words of Jesus are clear. We want to live in the land of pigs, we can at most offer some carobs to our brothers who live in it, but even this is not possible. The way indicated by Jesus is only one: we must return to the land of his Father, into his home, into his Word and into his Gospel. It is the condition for the Father to take our life into his hands and give it what it needs, both for today and for tomorrow. There are no other solutions of true salvation for man.

Our Mother, Angels and Saints, transfer us from the land of pigs to the house of our God.