Frantically, I run across the field towards the black billows of thick, furling smoke. It fills the night sky, choking out the breeze and veiling the stars. I keep running forward, though, further and further into the blackness. All around, curious neighbors spill out of their houses, their faces immediately shifting from curiosity, to worry, to panic; one of the houses a block over, undeniably ablaze.
Along with the rest of the neighborhood, I stand with a sinking heart, watching it burn to the ground.
The firefighters did their best to save it, but in the end the house was too far gone. Thankfully,
the family wasn't in the house at the time of the fire, but their life was.
They lost everything. They lost their home, all of their belongings, their dog, and the neighborhood lost a house; a scorched plot of rubble left in it's place; a scar.
There is a new house there now, a new family, a new life. All of the grass is grown back in and its as if there had never been a fire there at all. Only those who know what it looked like before miss it.
Is that life? Change, I mean. Things grow, live for their time, and then wilt away. Is there nothing more?
People, jobs, time, circumstances, they all change. LIFE...CHANGES.
"The only constant is change" -Heraclitus, Greek philosopher
But Heraclitus only knew the half of it. There's more.
God. Never. Changes.
He is the same from the beginning to the end, for He IS the Beginning and the End!
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." -Revelation 22:13
Your circumstances will change, your friends will change, your passions and concerns will change, but God never will and neither will His Word. If "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God," (John 1:1) then you can always rely on the fact that God never changes. You can always depend on GOD. :)
No matter where He leads me, no matter what changes or happens, I can forever rely on my Savior, Lord, and Heavenly Father for all grace, all forgiveness, love, strength, and mercy.
Isn't that great?
