Oh this changing world!

Life has taught us that if there is one constant thing in the universe, that thing is called change. To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often. And so it is with life. Everything in it speaks of change. Day breaks, afternoon comes and it is closely followed by evening and then night. And so the circle is repeated. A child is born, the child grows up and becomes adult, and gradually to be a man, and before you know it he is dead and so the circle continues. One then wonders why people resist change.

Sometimes we live in our little comfortable world with our tiny comfortable ideas and often think it is the best world there is and the greatest idea ever conceived. Dare anyone express a new idea or a new way of doing things and that person is dealt with mercilessly. That was the problem with Christ. He came to bring about a change in the world, a revolution of a monumental proportion. Since Christ came into the world, the world has not known peace. Christ himself said, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man “against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and one’s enemies will be those of his household’”, Mt. 10:34-36. It is this same change that the Scribes and Pharisee resisted to the point of putting Christ to death. Even John the Baptist did not understand Christ much. He had to send his disciples to go and ask, “are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” Lk. 7:19. John’s perception of Jesus was different from the reports that he heard about him. How do we receive changes initiated by Christ our Lord? The death of Christ on Good Friday should help us change our way of life and embrace His way. Think back on those Lenten resolutions that you made and see how you have lived up to them now that Lent is over. How has the practice of Lent helped you to change for the better? If you truly observed the 40 days of Lent then you will be able to celebrate the resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday. May the changes of these seasons remain with you so that you may truly be a child of God!