The Reality of God's Presence in a world filled with the evil of Sin!

The Reality of God’s Presence in a world filled with the evil of Sin!

Sin as we know it has become the very basis from which man cannot escape.  It began in heaven with some angels (Lucifer), the garden God made for mankind, and the everyday trek each of us is confronted with, much accepted as normal living.  

What was missing with the angels who rejected God, Adam’s failure of adherence to the love God had for him, and the erroneous attitude that we in this latest century are confusing success as our own initiative instead of God’s graciousness.  

As anyone of us may believe that God is an entity that must follow the dictates of modern society, using the brain of man that he endowed us with, the probability of its occurrence in life’s productivity of advancement into eternity unscathed is in itself a failure of the Truth that is God.

How can any of us bring this conclusion of man’s thinking to a closure and allow the God who created us, loved us in spite of a finite mind, and is already preparing a place for us if we will only believe and trust in his love?  (Jn 14: 1 - 3).

Studies have been going on for many years regarding just who God is in the minds of non-believers.  Why, they may argue, would a god who is supposed to love us leave the innocent to become fodder for evil men, including small children?  However, let’s put all of the mistrust in God into perspective.  We know, as parents, when we tell a child to keep away from a hot pot on the stove and they touch it anyway, the result of not listening to sound advice will lead to injuries.  And so it does!  What truth regarding God’s unending love has never waned?

I believe man has reached a point of believing their new-found intelligence and the effort to advance their own self-interests has reduced or subverted God within their lives.  This is seen in the loss of faith in too many families and individuals where the quest for wealth, pleasure, and hedonistic behavior everywhere has become the mantra of an evil generation growing rapidly in our own neighborhoods.  

Perhaps the new-age philosophy that has overtaken modern-man’s thinking that the God of the Bible was not really his Word.  They’ve even gone so far as to dissect the Trinity with some placing each person of this Holy Essence to fit their own ideas of who God has become.  If they cannot see a physical image of these three persons, then “who am I to believe” becomes their very mantra of understanding?  

When speaking of an evil adherence, it is the thought of creating a new god that will fit the evil that is infiltrating not only the halls of Justice, but the Church itself when Pope Francis has inserted anti-Truths into our system of Catholicism and the Dogmas of the Church itself.  The many changes that are in process at the Vatican go against Traditions that are in sync with the Word of God, Jesus Christ.  We are told that when the new millennium arrives, that is the Rapture that is predicted, the Church will no longer be strengthened by the Holy Spirit, since he will also be pulled away from the earth.  Is that reality occurring?   Are we in an evil that no one will be able to live under?  There are some actions predicted in Scripture as future occurrences that predictably will become our present reality.  We may be in the middle of that existence affecting the governments of the world and the Church as well.  Pray that God will alter that truth, but keep your faith that all of us will receive the grace to withstand whatever the evil of sin will fight to destroy what we’ve been blessed with already.  Hold to the teaching of the Catholic Church; inaugurated from the beginning without man changing the Truth.  God’s Word is Divine and we must not succumb to the evil that wishes through men to change our faith.         

Ralph B. Hathaway