Change is an unavoidable consequence of life. It keeps you on your toes and challenges you, preventing staleness in everyday activities. For these reasons, change is good; but you must be able to learn to be content and not demand change in order to always be occupied with something new. On the contrary, one’s morals and values can break down and change, leading to immoral
choices and sin. In this case change can be a bad thing. Change can then be good or bad, it all depends on the situation and the thing that is changing.
C.S. Lewis gave his opinion about change in his book, The Screwtape Letters. Through the demon uncle, Screwtape, C.S. Lewis said that human beings greatly desire change. They desire to remain in movement and entertained by new opportunities, always wanting the new thing.
Through this longing, demons and sin nature can lead people to never be content, always needing a new or different job, house, car, etc. On the contrary, C.S. Lewis says that humans fear not changing and being stagnant. They wish to not do the “regular old thing”, or their life will be boring.
I have experienced change in my own life as well. When my dad divorced my mom, a lot of things changed in my life that I couldn’t control; change had come like a runaway train. My dad then moved out and I saw him much less. Because of all of the changes in my life at home and with my dad, I had a lot of anger, sadness, disappointment, and confusion. I did not react the right way and held those emotions inside. After some advice from my mom, I decided to begin regularly
meeting with my youth pastor and discussing what had happened. After I started doing this, it took a great deal of strain off of me because I was able to let my emotions out and also receive counseling on how to be a Godly man that I was not receiving from my dad.
C.S. Lewis’s opinions on change, that humans always want something new and different, were spot on; except for one point. He failed to mention how being stagnant can be a temptation and become a snare to one’s life. Many times change can be uncomfortable, so human beings will often avoid change in order to stay comfortable (and often times lazy). This can lead to never progressing in life, never growing in your faith, and in the end, not really caring about what
you do with the time you have on planet earth. Therefore, change is an important thing, whether we choose the change or whether the change chooses us. We must trust God through all of the change, doing everything to His glory and looking forward to the coming Kingdom of Christ. And we can be comforted that God will never change, he is the perfect and almighty Creator of the universe.
Points: 10065
Reviews: 68
Donate