Things change quickly.  To provide some perspective imagine this, when I was in college (1994 to 1998) I had never emailed a paper into a professor, never sent a text to a friend (actually I didn’t even own a cell phone for several more years), I never “became friends” with anyone on facebook or myspace, I never googled anything and there certainly was no blogging.  My point is that the things I do now that are a part of my status quo, normal life weren’t even on my radar a decade ago.  When I was in high school the only kind of mail that anyone knew of involved licking a stamp.  Reality is that most of the things that have become normal life to me could easily be obsolete in the next few years.

Here is my point (I can hear the collective sighs of relief to find out that I have one): we live in a day and age when transition and change come at us faster than any other time in history.  Although all of the technology is designed to simplify our lives, it can also at times leave us hungry for constants; the things that never change, that we find dependable.

Here is where faith in an unchanging God remains so vital.  The words in the book of Hebrews (13:8) declaring God “the same yesterday, today and forever” are perhaps more comforting and stabilizing now than ever.  The the midst of overwhelming complexity breaks through the simplest truth, God remains.  The way we relate to him may change (probably not as much as we think it does), the way we express worship may change, the way a church or student ministry looks may change, the way we relate to each other changes, nearly everything changes and yet God remains the same.  The change that you and I will be forced to navigate so quickly can be done so with the guidance of a constant or really The Constant.

And now you can hear my sigh of relief because I am not the biggest fan of change…..

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