It is old
It has all become old. It is old, held up and governed by old people, and the older the system the more it tries to resist, taking advantage of people's fear, mental ignorance, the power of armies. The political and economic system is old, corrupt and its transparency allows us to catch a glimpse of its crises, its total failure, because it has not brought any fruit to people's true well-being and happiness. Religions are old and sterile, locked in their intolerant dogmas and in their laws, unable to awaken people to knowledge, love and peace.
Jesus does not mince words. All that man has built on earth is all too old and worn to be able to welcome with joy and fruitfully the evangelic procedures that He came to announce. This old world is based on the laws of the powerful, the arrogance of the rich, the violence of armies, the fear of the poor, the corruption of negotiators. Religions announce love but lead people to division and war, constitutions sing the hymns of human dignity and freedom but create laws without justice that enslave people and only defend the interests of the arrogant. The system that man created with his hands and mind is a system based on fear, division, injustice, conflict. Everything in the system is planned and carried out apparently for a greater purpose: for the safety of the people, for a new enlighting progress. But in reality how can fear lead to happiness and love? How can war generate freedom and peace? Can trial and punishment bear fruit of change and happiness?
Everything in this world was too old and worn out for what Jesus' message and person brought, and even that which seems modern and innovative is already terribly old and outdated. Unlike everything else, the new piece of cloth that the gospel came to bring to clothe humanity with the royal robes of God's children is not old, it is not worn. Unlike everything else, the new wine, sparkling and brimming with the Spirit of Love for the banquet of happiness and sharing has been lost its aroma and taste.
A change will come. The gospel is that change. The gospel will remain and the old, obstinate systems will disappear benearth the dust of their castles, banks, and armies. A change will come, but it will not come about because the people are tired of suffering, of being hungry, of being slaves, of being unhappy. Tired people do not create change, they are only ready to go to war against one another. Today many people are tired, even people who lived until not long ago with their heads in a transparent sanctuary unaware of their own slavery and unhappiness. Finally, poverty is not just an evocative and confused image that passes through a transparent box, now it is holding in its tight grip even those fooled by money and comforts into thinking they were free and even happy. People are tired, but this will not bring the change, it will only lead to ashes, many ashes, everywhere. The change will come, but if we want it to come about in peace, in beauty, in harmony and for the real well-being of mankind, we must follow the gospel, which by its nature, has not become old. Only the gospel contains the divine procedures to evolve towards light without going through destruction, because the gospel invites us to change through the power of inspiration. The change desired by the gospel will come about, but it will not come about because people are tired, it will come about because people will begin to want to be happy, truly happy with a new heart and new purposes which will no longer be personal interest, benefit, possession or domination. In the meantime we need to prepare our spirits, minds and bodies for the change, freeing them from toxins, anger, resentments, judgements, conflicts, poisons so that the news from the gospel can find new, ready, suitable hearts and not old, useless stubborn ones.