Holy Job speaks thus of many in his days, that they say to God, Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways, and Saint Paul says the same of the heathen, that they liked not to retain the knowledge of God. And is it not too true of numbers now all around us? How many young men, and women, who have been brought up to know God, as having made, redeemed, and called them to be His servants, and keep His commandments, do not choose to retain that knowledge? They prefer to have their own ways, and to follow their own wills. They love this world, its sins, pleasures, and pursuits, better than Jesus Christ, and His Gospel. They deliberately act wrongly, yet knowing quite well what is right. Therefore God, justly angry, often lets them go on in their willfully bad courses, till perhaps they become reprobate and lose their souls. Let our care then be, daily to use our knowledge of God, as our God and Father in Christ, for our growth in grace and preparation for death, judgment, and eternity. Thus we shall not only keep our light from becoming darkness, but it will shine more and more, in our words, and works, our tempers, and whole conduct, unto the perfect day. What a blessing that will be!
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp