Constant Change

Psalm 103:25-28

In ages past you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. Even they will perish, but you remain forever; they will wear out like old clothing. You will change them like a garment, and they will fade away. But you are always the same; your years never end. The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence.

Addy and I were in Best Buy the other day shopping for a battery charger she had lost for her digital camera. While waiting for someone to come help us, we wasted time by looking at new digital cameras. I was infatuated with all the new technology- more magapixels and more memory in smaller packages. Then I started thinking about Addy’s camera. Last Christmas she bought a 3.2 mega pixel digital camera. Now they don’t even stock 3.2 mega pixel cameras. Today, she could get a 5 mega pixel camera for the same price she paid for hers last year. It hit me - we live in a world that is always changing. From technology, to gas prices, to celebrity marriages everything around us is constantly changing. You could say the only constant is change.

Living in this ever transforming world, do we grasp what David was saying in this Psalm? God is “other”, he is beyond this world, beyond time. For all eternity he is the same. He never stops loving us. He never goes back on his promises. He always keeps his commitments. We can always find him because he is always there. While all we know is the ticking of time, God can see all time because he created it. He is as present 2000 years ago as he is today, and he is as present today as he is in the future. What a mind boggling concept.

But what about me? If an ever-steady God is present in my life through the Holy Spirit, why do I change so much in my commitment to him? It seems I’m constantly vacillating in how I live out my faith. I don’t always keep my promises. I often go back on my commitments. I’m not always there when God calls on me. Since I serve a constant unchanging God, how should my life reflect Him?