NOTES for Mat 25:13
Man gets used to everything. He gets used to danger, to expectation, to inconveniences, to comfort. We can get used to pain (ours and others), to blood at the television screen. Feelings become dull, the conscience keeps silent, the heart beats evenly… breath is deep and rhythmic, dormition. Why not? The Second Advent of Christ, the end of the world? Already two thousand years as we wait, and there is still nothing. It means that even today nothing will be, and we can sleep therefore.
Can we oversleep and miss the Second Advent? It seems so; because Jesus went nowhere. Ascending to the Father He remains with us and He can enter in our life at any time, just as He entered the life of Apostle Paul. But if at that moment our heart will be closed with “another sleep ", then the meeting will not take place and this will be “the second death " before the " first death " – from the spiritual death to the physical death.
That's why Jesus speaks to us, so that we should keep on alert, so that we prepare our hearts for the meeting, in order to hear the voice of our conscience, so that we don’t become stale, for us to wait.