Old-school is the term that seems best applicable to this picture. Old ways of doing things give way to newer ideas, many of them very good!!! I remember typing letters on a manual typewriter (no electricity) and having to do mathematics with a pencil and paper (sometimes even WITHOUT THE PAPER). Rotary telephones, party lines, mimeograph machines and wringer washers have all gone the way of the dodo bird. Today, life is all about productivity. We expect everything to make us succeed; even our spouse. Something doesn't do this- goodbye. But some things simply do not change. We grow up, have children, grow old and eventually die. What then? Well, then comes the judgment. If we have listened and obeyed, fine; if not, along comes the consequences for our attitude towards God and HIS WORD!!! Jeremiah puts it this way...
Jeremiah, Chapter 6
16 Thus says Yahweh, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ 18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. 20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”
But, I like new things, new ways of doing things, you might say. That is fine for this world because it is changing. However, God does NOT CHANGE!!! Don't like the idea of being told what to do? That happens to us all, each and every day. Your spouse, the police officer, your boss, your teacher, your girlfriend (boyfriend) and many others give instructions you had better listen to. So, why not listen to God???? In ten thousand years times ten thousand, HE will still be there and WE will still have to answer for what we do!!! Why not make it easy on ourselves and just listen? Old ways of doing things (including how we live our lives) will get us you to heaven; why would anyone want to do something different??????