I have always believed that when Jesus speaks of the kingdom of heaven, we should pay very close attention to these moments. These parables about the kingdom, tell us something very real about the life that the Lord has planned for us when this time is finished. So what is this parable teaching us today? The answer is simply that there will be heaven and hell, ans that some will go to heaven, and some will indeed go to hell.
This is confirmed by mother Mary at Fatima, where she said that souls are falling into hell like snow falling on the ground. That is a lot of souls. Modernists will have you believe that hell is empty, because they want to believe that God’s mercy is greater than His justice. And yes His mercy is indeed infinite, but in His justice He cannot both grant us humans free will (the freedom to choose), while at the same time force a person into an eternal decision that they reject and deny?
God is indeed, all knowing and all powerful, but He is also all just. A favorite attack of the modernist atheist is to respond to statement of God’s omicience and omnipotence by asking the question: “can god make a square circle?” The answer is no! But not because He is limited in power to do so, but because because He limits Himself by Justice. God created the whole universe as a perfect harmony of His divine and natural law. Gravity pulls equally on all things, thus creating orbits, and planets with seasons and life on them. He created math and science that governs the movements of the universe, he created life that provides food and companionship. And yes he created squares and circles. He created them as different things with totally different natures. And as such they cannot, at the same time, be different and the same. He created these laws of nature so that we could have a world with predictable rules of existence, and to provide for our every need.
If He were to then capriciously change the laws and the divine order of things on a whim, that would make Him unjust, and He would thus be contradicting his own nature, which he cannot do. Similarly, with free will, Can God accept into Heaven, those that have rejected Him? That is not according to His nature either and would be unjust as well. Remember St. Paul said nothing unclean can enter heaven. God is love, and truth, and justice, and he is not going to force someone that rejects him (someone that is unclean), to be with him forever in heaven, like a slave.
God will give you for eternity what your heart most deeply desires. We all need to contend with this question, what does your heart desire? If it is not God, then you need to ask yourself if you are capable of supplying, for yourself, every need you will ever have? Are you able to fill the emptiness that your soul longs to fill? Are you able to be alone with only yourself for all eternity? Do you really think that you are all that you will ever need, and that God is unnecessary? If you are at all unsure you need to stop right now, and come to terms with that question. However, If it is God that you want for all eternity, then you need to ask yourself if you are indeed living your life as if that were true? If not what can you do to change that?
We only have this life to get it right. When Jesus comes back and we are sorted at the end of time, you want to be in that good bucket and not discarded as refuse, into the fiery furnace. What is it that your heart truly desires? You must choose…your eternity depends on it…, choose well!
