Dare 2 Share - "I am the Lord, I change not." --Malachi 3:6
There is a word in the English language that oftentimes causes people to worry. It is a word that characterizes our state of affairs these past few months. The word is change. Few folks enjoy it, because we prefer our life circumstances to be predictable, knowable, and foreseeable. We strongly desire our state of affairs to be constant, which has definitely not been the case lately. It seems as though every time we turn on the radio or the television, some dire information will come our way and make us feel like there is little left in which to anchor our lives.
Why is change such an issue for us? Simple: for years we have enjoyed peace and prosperity. It seems like the biggest alterations in our lives have revolved around a normal course of events. We move, we lose loved ones, we get ill, etc. Yet now we are a nation who is grieving an inconceivable tragedy, fighting a war, and facing imminent threats from an unknown enemy.
Did you know that the majority of Christians who have lived before us were forced to cope with these same circumstances? Suddenly, we have a taste of what it would have been like to be a believer from time past, and it is disconcerting to say the least. How should we deal with constant and threatening variations of life? The same way that God’s people have for thousands of years: by placing supreme confidence in The Lord “who changes not”.
When you think about it, the very nature of life is subject to the law of change. The sun will eventually grow old and grow dark, and the fabric of the universe is wearing thin like a garment that has been worn too many times. Yet we serve a God who is “the same yesterday, today, and forever”. (Hebrews 13:8)
He loves us with an “everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3), and the fact of the matter is that we have no hope in this life outside of a hope that is anchored in a relationship with the God in whose nature "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning". (James 1:17)
If today you are feeling an unspecified wave of anxiousness that threatens to push you to the brink of depression, worry and hopelessness- remember that the wheel of destiny revolves, but its axle is eternal love.
Questions:
1) Is your ultimate hope founded in “the God who changes not”? Why or why not?
2) How does this truth about God apply to our present circumstances?
3) Do you have friends or family that desperately need to know about the hope that is found in a relationship with Christ?
