Our God Who Doesn’t Change

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows (James 1:17, NIV).

How do you deal with change?  Do you feel like a “typewriter” living in an “ipad” age?  Life is changing rapidly.  Change is not the issue.  How we relate to change is the issue.  Preaching Today reports on the last company in the world to produce typewriters:

This past week, Godrej and Boyce, the last company in the world to produce typewriters, finally shut down its production plant. They still have an inventory of a few hundred machines—mostly in Arabic—if you need to buy one. This marks an end of an era for a piece of equipment that dominated the office communication scene (the first typewriter was produced in the U.S. in 1867). The manager of Godrej and Boyce said, "We are not getting many orders now"—definitely a wild understatement.

Isn’t it wonderful to know that no matter how fast change occurs, it always lags behind the ways of our God who stands behind, before, and beyond the latest gadgets and fascinations of our age.  Jesus is not only timely; He is timeless.  In fact, He is the only Being in the universe who does not change.  We should relate to change in the same way that He does: expect it and respond to the Lord through it (not react).  Nowhere does change seem to threaten more than in the church.  Yet, we should not fear it; our Lord simply calls us to follow Him through it.