Do you ever have a word that sticks in your mind and gets stuck in a groove. With me, the word variableness has been my companion for several weeks now.
The only constant is change, I've heard. But there is something true and certain I'm seeing that does not change and it settles my heart and mind and centers me in reality, in the really real, time and time again, when things around me do change. The constancy of God is his goodness and his love that do not change. This truth is our foundation that grounds us when the winds of change are blowing.
In the KJV, which I learned many years ago in high school, James 1:17 says, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
I look back on the decades of my life, as a child, as a teen and young adult, as a young married woman, middle aged woman, and now white haired and very happy to say, thankful, for the ways I see God has invited me to become the person I am today. God - Father, Son, Spirit - has been constant through so many seasons of change.
In the Autumn of life, there is crispness in the morning air and new mercies for each day. Those new mercies, experienced consistency through seasons for years, invite me into the things I was created to do. I live in the reality of God's presence and the surety that God is with me and for me. I'm thankful for the privilege of walking alongside others in the reality of that deep assurance and surety.
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