Change

I've been back to a place I only left 6 months ago to find out change is inevitable. A change of restaurant, a change of the church's building and structure, the change of Fanta's logo. Strange how this can catch you- especially if it's all on one day. And especially if you have been feeling stuck- like you are going nowhere slowly, or like a bad movie on repeat. And although people remain relatively the same- my heart aches and yearns for something to stay the same, yet something in me to be made new. 

In a world that is constantly changing, constantly re-inventing itself, it gives me great comfort that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Heb 13:8. That since Jesus has been faithful to lead me in the past, He will be with me in my today and lead me in my tomorow. I can rest on Him and His steadfast love. He is our rock (see Psalm 18:2) 

Yet although He is constant, unchanging- He is willing to change us make us new, make us more like Him. You see we, as humans, get stuck, and that is perhaps why we have such a desperate need to remake ourselves, to remodel our buildings, change our brands. Yet "He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Rev 21:5. Isa 43:19 says "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." You see God wants to take our wilderness, our struggles and make something beautiful out of them. He wants to change us, make us more like Him. "We.. are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory" 2 Cor 3:18. 

So if you are looking for stability - God remains the same, yet He does not want us to remain stuck, He wants to make us new. So let us trust Him, let us look to Him, give Him our hurts so that He can produce a masterpiece- something new within us.

May the LORD bless You with knowing His faithfulness
May He keep You in His unchanging grace.
May He make His face to shine upon You, so you can trust Him.

And may He give you peace while He changes you.