Remaking Society 

   “Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.”  (Fulton J. Sheen) 

   Most of us would like to see changes in today’s society.  But society can only reflect the people who are part of that society; until we remake ourselves we will never remake society.

   Everyone  complains about the evils in society, in politics, and even in the clergy and churches.  But each of these entities are merely a sampling of the people from which they are populated.  If the populace is one of faith, there will be less evil, when the people reject God and His ways there will be more. 

   Right from the beginning, in the book of Genesis, we are told what we are to be.  “God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Gen 1: 27)  Though we can never be a true reflection of the image of God in this life, that is the goal we must strive to attain.  Until we make a serious effort to apply it to our lives we will continue to live in a dysfunctional society.

   Remaking ourselves in the image of God, taking to task our laziness, our lukewarmness, our outright rejection of God’s commands, is difficult.  It requires determination, perseverance and, most of all, trust in God.  The kind of trust that refuses to allow us to give up on God and His will for us.  We will often fail in our efforts, but those failures are opportunities to get back up and, with the help of God, to try harder.

   If we want to remake society we must endeavor to make ourselves into the image of God as we were intended to be.  As long as we remain the same, society will as well.