An Unchanging God

It’s crazy to think that I have gone this long without writing. And it’s crazy to think how much can happen in the span of a couple months, but let me tell you, dear blog readers, so much has happened in the past couple months. It’s been a crazy busy and crazy wonderful past couple of months. The best part about it is that no matter where I was in the middle of the madness, God has been right alongside me, and that’s something I think many of way too often take for granted.

Over the summer, a friend and I wrote and composed a song called Unchanging. The lyrics go a little something like this, “Changing, moving so fast. I can’t make this stop, I just need some air…Your unchanging.” In the madness of the past couple of months, I have had the chance to walk alongside a God who does not change, no matter how much things around me are changing.

I hate change. I am very organized and only enjoy change that I can control; change that happens because I allow it to happen, not change that happens outside of my control. However, often times in life, things change that I can’t control. Friends walk in and out of life, the seasons come and go, grades falter, sports seasons end, everything changes. There is nothing that doesn’t change. It is out of my control whether or not things change. I have been given so many changes throughout the year, and I can honestly tell you that I have begged God to stop things from changing. But I have come to find that it has been in the middle of those changes that God has reminded me that He is right there with me and that He doesn’t change.

There is nothing in the world that can compare to that. Everything changes, but He doesn’t. He is so uniquely different from the world and from anything that we can understand, because He doesn’t change. He is the same God “yesterday, today and forever.” It’s so hard to imagine that, because there is nothing in this world that you can compare Him too. Everything around us is constantly changing, but yet He isn’t. Some say God is like their best friend, but sooner or later those people we call best friends change too, and some of them even walk out. Some say God is like their Daddy, but Dad’s change too. Sooner or later, we will have to leave our parents behind and move on to independence without them, and some day our parents will no longer be with us and we will have to go on without them in life. There is nothing in the human world that we can compare God to, because He doesn’t change. And that very same God, can be your best friend, your Daddy, but He is unique different from all human comparisons. He won’t walk out of your life when you fail, but rather will always forgive you when you come to Him admitting your need for that. He won’t move away because He has to go to college or He gets a new job in another state, but rather He will walk right alongside you each step of the way through your changes, and won’t get tired of you. He will always love you and forgive you when you make a mistake and He will be there even after you run from Him.

This God has been the constant and unchanging thing in my life. Amiss me changing and faltering, He has not given up on me or told me that my mistakes are too large for Him to forgive. He has been there when I pushed Him away or blamed Him for the things that are changing in my life. He has loved me unconditionally. Even better yet, He has held my life in the palm of His hands. When I couldn’t and can’t keep up with the constant changes of this world, He just smiles, and reminds me that my life is being put into play just as He desires and allows it to.

So take heart, dear brothers and sisters, in this changing world. We serve a God who does not change and that desires to walk with each one of us through the changes that are coming our way. Just keep trusting Him throughout it all. He is there, He cares and He does not change.