Unchanging God, by Casey Ferguson
Typically, whenever something new comes out, something trendy or cutting edge, I’m one of the last to hear about it.
The marketing business has labels for people in reference to where they come in on the implementation time line of a new product. There are innovators, people who stand in line for hours to become the first person they know with the newest, shiniest gadget. There are early adapters, those who may not have it first but are still quick enough to get it to maintain their “trendy” status. And there are people like me, those you might see price checking DVD players when everyone else is kicking it with Blu-Ray.
I’m pretty sure I was one of the last people to hear about Apple’s newest product, the iPad. I was told about it last week by a friend, and when I mentioned it to my wife, she already knew about it. Not only that, but when I brought it up to my buddy Brian he told me he had already watched a two hour video on it in class, and the new association I felt with the product seemed silly, with everyone else already appearing so familiar with it.
Nothing stays ‘new’ very long anymore. I remember when Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis reigned supreme as the kings of video gaming for years without being pushed off their thrones. Lately, it seems we have a new king of the mountain every other week. Meanwhile, innovators like Apple have begun to stamp their products with a generation number, meaning anytime a new generation of product comes out for the company, the previous one is automatically outdated.
Back in Old Testament times a man or woman’s lifetime could last several hundred years, and reading about them makes me wonder how strong a man could be at 500 years old. It also makes me ponder the patience and mindset of God. He’s accomplished the full spectrum with mankind. At one time God let it be that a single man could achieve almost a millennium of experience in his lifetime. Eventually the average lifespan was whittled down (in some parts of the world) to where 60 years was considered rare and ancient. Today we’re seeing advancements in medicine and technology in the developed nations of the world, and because of these progressions it surprises us when someone goes before reaching the age of 60.
We’ve become so accustomed to change and rapid progression that standing still frustrates us; we’ve gotten so used to the breakthroughs science and technology that death always tends to catch us off guard. I wonder if we’re not caught in a paradox, expecting life to go on forever, and at the same time expecting it to continue changing forever.
In the Bible it says that God is unchanging. If we really thought about it, I imagine this thought would make us a bit uncomfortable. It doesn’t make sense to the modern mind that a being could ever be content not changing. And I would even bet it’s hard for us to admit that there is a God who will outlast us in every way.
However, because he exists we must line up our lives to fit his precepts, and not the other way around. I encourage you today to think about the God who created you, and who has been forever. Think about what this means for your life, and, if you haven’t yet, consider giving your life to him, the unchanging, everlasting God. I trust it will change your view of the world forever.
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Well, I guess the best answer is that the content isn’t updated as consistently as I’d like. We do try to promote it, though. Any thoughts as to how we could pump it more consistently?