The Unchanging...

It was a pleasant evening , and I chose to be at the beach... I was enjoying the cool and gentle breeze on the west coast. The sun had finished its routine for the day and was setting, another few minutes and it would go back to its resting place. They say it shines very bright once again just before it disappears into the horizon…The sky was reflecting the beautiful colors of the rays of the sun, I was amazed at the different shapes of the clouds.  To me each resembled the shape of some real life object or the other…some were like animals , some like ships while others like trees and so on…and all of a sudden one thing struck me – these were changing their shapes constantly though slowly !

The clouds were slowly moving and in course their shapes were changing. Once that which was a beautiful bird turned into some unrecognizable abstract structure, while still others resembled other objects, which weren’t as beautiful as the previous shapes.

Disappointment crept in, for a moment’s time I was rejoicing at the beauty of these cute clouds against the colorful sunset and the gentle ocean below reflecting it, but soon things so drastically changed, the clouds disintegrated, the sun was dimming down and the tides grew stronger causing the once gentle waves to roar…

Aren’t things in our life sometimes so similar to this…situations change, maybe for good or maybe for bad. Relationships that once gave us hope and love, may have now come to the brink of breaking up or maybe it isn’t there at all anymore! People whom we trusted changed like the shadows and moved on in life, leaving us behind. Or is it something dear that you held on to and it has let you down…

The world around us is a rapidly changing one. Nothing in it remains the same. And people of this world are like chameleons. They adapt to situations and change their stance to suit their comfort. Friends- they come and go. They are here today and there tomorrow and might very well not be there at all the day after.

On the contrary, there are things in life which we so desperately want to be changed and lo - they just don’t seem to! You try everything you can, you run, scream, fight, stand upside down, and yet they remain the same…Phew !!! Can we survive in a world like this? Is there any hope for us in situations like these ? a depressing job...a broken relationship...a deteriorating lifestyle…a crumbling financial base…emotional turmoil…a betrayed soul ???  

In an ever changing world there is one who is never changing !

He is the same yesterday today and forever. Heaven and earth may pass away but His words will remain! He is not man to lie nor the son of man to change His mind. His promises never fail. In Him there is strength for today and hope for tomorrow.

If you are tossed to and fro by this ever changing world, hold on to the never changing one – Jesus, the unchanging!

Azariah Jerry Manuel