One Thing Remains

They say the only constant in life is change.  Well, to an extend I agree.  In life, things are changing constantly.  As a mom, I can say in that first year of each of my girls' life, things changed all the time, from emotions, to what they were able to do, what they ate.  My husband and mine relationship changes as well.  As we grow as individuals, and as one, how we react and what we say changes.  Personally for me, I have changed a lot since I was 18 years old.
Jobs change, friendships change (especially in junior high and high school) families change (divorce, death, trials) interest change, etc.  So it would seem that change is the only constant in our life.  Yet as Christians we know this is not the case.

In Hebrews 13:8 we are told that " Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."  The same?  He never changes?  Jesus is the same today as He was at the beginning of time, so we can count on Him being the same forever.  Even the Old Testament enforces the fact that God never changes.  “I the Lord do not change." Malachi 3:6a.

I debated about whether or not I would post all the verses I found about this, but I decided to because, as humans, we sometimes need the reassurance.

James 1:17 "Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle."  God's has promised us blessings and gifts.  He's not going to take back the promise.

Numbers 23:19 "God is not human, that he should lie,
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise and not fulfill?"

God is not like man.  We make promises and we don't always follow through, but God always does.

Lamentations 3:22 " Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
    for his compassions never fail."  God's love never fails.  It is always there.

Daniel 6:26b "For he is the living God
    and he endures forever;
his kingdom will not be destroyed,
    his dominion will never end." God cannot be destroyed, His kingdom will not go away.  He is forever.

Why am I wanting to stress to you that God never changes?  Like I stated before we say change is the only constant in our life, but that is not true.  God is the ultimate constant.  He is always with us.  Everything we go through, every event in our life whether big or small, God is there.  Who God is always the same.  

There are a lot of people who don't like change and I can understand why.  Some people just like things in order.  Others don't like change because it represents something negative.  Change can happen when your parents divorce.  It can be devastating.  Friendships change over time.  I can't even begin to tell you friendship that I had for a long time that all of a sudden ended.  Changes happen to our body that we don't always get and don't always like.   Sometimes its a move.

Change can be tough, but if we only focus on the change, it can consume us and take us to a dark place.  But if we can focus on the one constant in our life that doesn't change, it can make the situation we are in better.  When we are going through change, no matter if its something good or something bad, if we rely of God through it it will be easier.  Now I'm not saying the change won't happen or it won't be hard, but if we can remember that God doesn't change, that He always delivers what He promises.

One of my favorite worship songs is called "One Thing Remains" by Jesus Culture.  The lyrics state "Higher than the mountains that I face
            Stronger than the power of the grave
            Constant through the trial and the change
            One thing remains
            One thing remains
Your love never fails it never gives up it never runs out on me." 

He is constant!  When everything is falling down around us this one thing remains: God.  

So change isn't the only constant in our life.  We just sometimes allow it to be, instead of relying on the absolute constant in our life.  If we can remember that the one who conquered the grave, who's kingdom will never fall, who's reign will never end, is on our side, we can do anything!

Here is the link for the song "One Thing Remains"

One Thing Remains

PS: I'm sorry my blogs tend to be rambles.  I sometimes have about ten minutes to write before two blond headed distractions that for some reason call me mommy come running in  :-)