We are new parents! At least that is what my daughter tells me. A while back, we were going to her home for the weekend and she asked what was our ETA. I told her I thought we would sleep in and then head out a little later. That was when she first had the thought “who are you and what have you done with my parents?!” Her parents do not sleep in. Her parents are up before the sun and have more done by their 10 a.m. coffee break than most people do all day. Then I told her I thought we would just take our time. Her suspicions went up another notch. When she was a child her parent’s vocabulary did not even include the words “take your time,” when there was travel involved. Upon embarking on a trip, the decree went out that everyone was to get a drink, go to the bathroom and have whatever was needed in the car, because there would be no stopping until we had to stop for gas. As she was wrapping her mind around these new parents, I let it slip that I thought we would stop at Cracker Barrel for breakfast. At this point she was sure her parents had been abducted and I was some alien. When we traveled all stops involved 1. Getting gas 2. Going to the bathroom 3. Fast food. There was never even a thought given to stopping at a sit down restaurant, especially one that did not have a gas station attached, and having a leisurely breakfast. She would definitely have a lot of adjusting to do because these new parents were nothing like her old ones.
Our lives are always being moved along by the winds of change. Change happens to everyone and in every aspect of our lives. Some change is fun and exciting and some change is life altering and threatens to destroy us. This past Sunday our country remembered the change that was thrust upon us all on September 9, 2001. That was one of those life-altering changes that threatened to destroy us. Change is inevitable in life but God has not left us without hope. As we grapple with difficult changes in our own personal lives like a new school, a new job, a move, a loss of income, a bad medical report, a rebellious child, and on and on, it is good to remember that our God does not change. I am sure you all know the saying that the two things in life that never change are death and taxes. Today I add the third. God never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
1 Samuel 15:29 (NLT) And he who is the Glory of Israel will not lie, nor will he change his mind, for he is not human that he should change his mind!”
Malachi 3:6 “I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed.
Hebrews 6:18-20
The Message (MSG)
God Gave His Word
When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, "I promise that I'll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!" Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.
We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek.
Whatever change you are grappling with today that you fear you cannot survive, I challenge you to grab hold of the unbreakable spiritual lifeline from an unchanging God and hold on. You will be ok because God Gave His Word
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