Changes Come and Go

 

Have you noticed?   The days are getting shorter.  Though there are still many warm days, there the temperatures are not as  hot as they were in July.   Fall is officially here and it is starting to look like.  The times are changing.   One of the gifts of living in my part of the world is that we indeed experience all 4 seasons.   I cannot imagine what it would be like to live in a place where you never saw snow on the ground or ice glistening on the tree limbs… or saw the tree leaves change from green to hues of orange, red, or yellow.  

Changes is hard for all of us.   Many struggle when a software they use in their job has an upgrade.   Students struggle when they adjust to a new school or a new teacher.    What car driver has not found themselves confused when they encountered a detour on a familiar road or a new traffic pattern.

While change is sometimes hard, it also can be good.   When an infant cries, sometimes perhaps they cry because they need a change of a diaper.   Change sometimes is not just good, but change sometimes is of God.   Here are a few examples:

·         No one but God could have changed a man named Saul from a persecutor of Christians to a great missionary

·         No one but God could have changed Peter from a rocky commitment to Christ Jesus into the one who preached a sermon on Pentecost that led to  3000 souls giving their life to Christ

·         No one but God could have changed David from being a shepherd boy to be a great King and Psalm writer

·         No one but God could have changed Joseph from being a little brother shunned by his elder brothers to being the prime minister of Egypt

·         Last but not least, no one but God could have changed a dead, crucified Jesus from one whose life was over into the risen living Lord

The times are changing.   Thanks be to God for the miraculous changes He works in all of us.  Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

PRAYER    Almighty God,  we give thanks that though the seasons change and the world changes that your love changes not.   We give thanks for the changes you have wrought in our lives; through Christ our Lord.  Amen.