Change is good?
I am so tired of people who have the “nowadays” faith. You know what I mean. “Nowadays contraception is very practical” or “Nowadays divorce is a fact of life”. Is the faith of long ago no longer the faith of the people? Have we abandoned all sense of faith? Do we no longer believe that the covenants we make with God are indeed binding and that failure on our part to maintain these covenants will result in some very dire consequences? We are so modern and practical that we have effectively thought our way out of having faith.
Poor justification for our actions is a result of the modern tendency to make everything relative. Often when we hear of relative morality we think of very drastic examples, such as the “If it feels good, do it” crowd. But we commit the same folly almost daily. How many women say that the Church is wrong about birth control because birth control wasn’t very common when the teaching was put forth (not true, birth control has been around for a very long time)? Or how many people say that these days it is good to live with your future spouse so that you can see if you are compatible? We want to view Church teachings through the prism of modernity, but these teachings are eternal and universal. God is not subject to the rules of time, and neither are his expectations of us.
It is time that we return to the simple faith that we are meant to have. We must be like children. Sound familiar? We need to be innocent and trust that God’s Word has provided all that we need to know for salvation. We must not inject our own opinions into Church teachings. The Law of God has not changed over time, so why do we feel compelled to try and change it? There are no “penumbras” with God’s Law. It is what it is. If only we could be like children and walk with love and obedience.
-God bless.
