If you’ve ever watched the movie Varsity Blues, you are familiar with the girl who dumps star quarterback Lance Harbor as soon as he suffers a severe knee injury. On the car ride from the hospital where Lance is to the party that same night she begins trying to seduce the new starting quarterback Jonathon Moxon. When he tries excusing himself by saying Lance is her boyfriend, she just says “Things change Mox...you’re the starting quarterback now”.
It has been said that the one of the only certainties we have in life is change. All sorts of things change many times in our lives...friends, family, jobs, what city we live in, etc. It can seem like everything is moving. In these times it is so easy to get caught up in emotion and base our level of faith in God on our immediate circumstances. This approach is like trying to run in place in quicksand....it just doesn’t work.
God has made himself known to us in different ways throughout history, but he has always been the same. Malachi 3:6 states that “I the Lord do not change”. Hebrews 13:8 also tells us that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever”. God has always wanted His people to belong to Him alone and to bring Him glory.
Circumstances around us will always be changing. We can choose to yield to our emotions and reject God’s love when things aren’t going well OR remember that God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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