Change and Permanence - an assurance of faith

WORD 2day: Friday, 4th week in Ordinary time

February 7, 2025 - Hebrews 13: 1-8; Mark 6: 14-29

Change is the only thing that never changes, it is said! Everything is changing all around us - what is right or wrong, what is admirable and what not, what is popular and what not...these are all changing by the day. Trends and trending choices all around are daily happenings today. People and societies are finding much easier, justifications and explanations for choices that were once difficult to standy for! Do these make 'anything' acceptable? No, not for us!

That is one reason, the Church and the Christian way of life is criticised, targetted and ridiculed - saying it is "outdated". In fact the Church knows well, everyone is calling its teachings outdated - oh, should it change then immediately? Otherwise, it would go obsolete and die its way out? Does not matter, in certain things the Church will stick on, remain put because some things cannot change. But why? Because we have a Lord who does not change!

Things change and humanity progresses - we shall embrace it with love and joy. But that cannot make change an absolute, change for the sake of change! Change is not the absolute... change is made significant, only by those which remain permanent. For us who believe in the Lord, it is the Lord who gives us that element of permanence. That is the assurance of faith we have: that the Lord never changes, that love is the absolute, that Truth is the absolute, that the way of the Lord is the absolute, that the life in the Lord is the absolute. The Lord himself has said this. The Lord who is love, has said, I am the way, the truth and the life... these are the absolutes. 

It is so, because Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow!