Aversion to change lies in human nature. We like to proceed in our comfort zone, rationalizing even the most absurd reasons why we are incapable to abandon even the most harmful behaviours or habits we have, alternatively than hazard changing.
The laws of spiritual improvement are not based on crossing their comfort pile from now on, for it is only then that there is simply a chance of real growth. Spiritual, social, cultural growth. Abraham would not have become the father of a large nation had he not come out of Ur. The Israelites would not have reached the Promised Land had they not risked the march in the wilderness, and for forty (sic!) years. Mary would not have become the parent of the Savior if she had not risked leaving the comfort region in which she was seen as a female strictly obeying judaic law. All these large things happened due to the fact that people, having before God's eyes a plan, God's values, the nonsubjective good, they abandoned the pattern and risked, trusting without limit.
What about us? all day the same cigarette, although I know it hurts. all week a can of beer, due to the fact that it's not a habit yet. What is simply a recollected confession is simply a list of the same sins, not even preceded by the account of conscience, and even if so, by the 1 who printed us decades ago in a book for the first Holy Communion service. Same newspaper, same tv or radio station, same news service, same organization at the election for years.
But the planet is changing, even if we don't see it. The book for the church of decades ago may have an outdated conscience account due to the fact that it does not ask about sins committed, for example, on the web. The newspaper, although having the same title, is no longer the same, is not the same radio station, news service, supported for years the organization is not the same either. But we don't see it anymore, the way the parent can't see how fast his children grow. It's only a longer breakup or a look at photos years ago that lets you see it.
Is change, then, a continuous change a goal? No, change is not a goal, it can only be a means to an end. The goal is salvation, eternity with God in heaven. To accomplish this, we must belong more and more to him all day. If we already belong sufficiently, we don't gotta change anything, we just gotta watch the course, due to the fact that even a slight deviation at first will lead us to a completely different place. But what if we don't belong to God enough?
Our life is simply a palette of colors, a catalogue of various aspects, and each of them must be subjected to God if we take the question of salvation seriously. We can't change everything at once, we can't change everything in a day. But the powerful tool of change, besides the interior change of man, will be handed in with the election card next Sunday. God is with us everywhere, he'll be at the polling station, he'll be standing over the urn erstwhile we throw a card in it.
In the face of millions who vote 1 vote means almost nothing, but before God’s tribunal 1 day can mean anything.
Do we take elections seriously? Are we trying to look at Poland with the eyes of faith, or are we looking for the authorities who believe in God and God urge their work and actions? Or possibly we chose once, a long time ago, and now we just repeat this choice without verification and without making certain it's inactive the best due to the fact that we're afraid of change, verification, fear of remorse if we figure out we were wrong?
Only God knows the future, so He does not anticipate us to foretell the future, the distribution of the voices, the division of the seats... we are to choose the most suitable people and leave the remainder to Him, the 1 who opened the sea, defeated death, stopped the Bolsheviks in 1920. For only He, the Most advanced God, is holy, infallible, and eternal, not us.
Karolina Stefanowska
