The Loss of Faith in a World of Deceit

The Loss of Faith in a World of Deceit

We are watching a new generation reaching maturity with their decisions to keep the church in sync with God’s call to faith.  However, as we look at the absence of too many in their age bracket, and what should be the offspring of their procreation, the empty pews in our churches show a disheartening scene of the forgetfulness about who God is.

Most of these families have children in elementary school, and a fair amount attending parochial schools.  Invariably, they might be among those families who still attend mass and their children will be making their first communion and confirmation in several years.  

But, with the reduced attendance, as my wife pointed out to me at mass, most of the adults have white hair and not too many children are attending as well.  This has become an era where the lack of faith has incredibly become the greatest influx of one-time believers looking at worldly treasures and promoting themselves first.  They are hedonists seeking only their own pleasures which supersedes themselves and their families.

Seeking the realm of hedonistic living will require much more than sexual or stigmas that result in individual pleasure.  The cost of destroying family income, community status, and the loss of any spiritual connection will result in the exiting of any belief in God.  Here is where the family unit is going to fail. 

Unfortunately, there are way too many family units seeking the idols of wealth, power, and even satanic influences over Christian values which can be a deterrent to ill-gotten behavior.  We have been deceived by the influence of an evil that is lurking in our world, unlike the article I recently wrote “Evil What is it?” There the thought was the essence of evil, here we see a result of it.

We have 8 great-grandchildren and only a couple are getting any semblance of church, Christ, and what faith is all about.  But of our grandchildren very few see the inside of a church.  However, it is not just our family but far too many families who also are experiencing the same synopsis.  When and where will all this come to a conclusion? 

This indeed may be the one question that more than we might be able to count are considering and seeking Christ to show all of us the way through this malady.  Without God’s presence we have no answer, without his intervention we have no hope!

Ralph B. Hathaway