The world keeps changing but God is constant

It is only 10 o’clock in the morning as I write this and my head is already full of information, appointments, news, discoveries and other things. I have the feeling that I am always behind and that I will never be able to keep up with the world, with its discoveries, its fashion and new technology.

Sometimes, I have the feeling that my soul, mind and body has to divide into hundreds of pieces in order to accomplish what I should or want. Did you ever have that feeling?

We are bombarded with information through television, the Internet and newspapers. There is always a competition of who will present the news the fastest and the most accurate. We live in a time of speedy homosapiens.

Today we travel anywhere in the world, and in one day, from the morning to the evening. We can meet people from the other side of the globe and do businesses with them.

It is amazing what we can do today and what we couldn’t 500 years ago. Probably we would be more amazed of what humanity will be able to do 500 years from now.

Almost everything changes in the world except God, who is eternal, and our very own humanity, which thirsts for fulfillment and for eternity.

God is the same: yesterday, today and tomorrow. “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.” (Revelation 22:13) Our thirst for fulfillment, for eternity is the same, we change just the tools.

I like to compare ourselves in this universe, in this life, with babies just born into the world. We, like babies, want to explore everything, touch everything and taste everything. We look around with amazing eyes, trying to understand where we are and why we are where we are. We giggle at every new discovery ... with excitement and sparkling eyes.

All these reactions are part of development of a healthy baby. But above all these “discoveries,” a child, like all of us, needs something else that is more important than anything. All his actions, all his discoveries, and interactions with the world around him, could be a disaster if he doesn’t have this most important thing in his life.

And this most important thing is not his sight or his smell or parts of his body but a parent, an adult to love him, to care for him, to protect him, to guide him in his development from a baby to a child, adolescent and adult.

We, as relatively newborn beings in this universe, need a protective hand to guide us. We need our father and God, to teach us, to love us, to protect us.

We are so amazed of what we can discover with our human mind with our technology and everything else that sometimes we forget that we have a father whose guidance is what we need in order to solve life’s puzzles.

That’s why Jesus came to us. He took our very human nature, in a mysterious way, and he died for us so that we can have again life in ourselves.

Not too long ago, we celebrated Holy Pasch, the Resurrection of our Lord. That’s what we celebrate every Sunday when we go to church and receive Communion with thankful and humble hearts.

Now, after 50 days since Christ’s Resurrection at Holy Pasch, we celebrate our own resurrection, our own awakening to real life, which can be possible because of the Pentecost Feast, the descent of the Holy Spirit.

Because of God’s grace, we can understand the mystery of our life, of our world and of our universe.

XThe Rev. Cosmin Antonescu is pastor of Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church, 626 Wick Ave., Youngstown, and a member of the Eastern Orthodox Clergy Association of Mahoning Valley.