I bought some new toothpaste the other day and it made me think about the Word of God.
I opened the box, pulled out the tube and saw something I did not expect. Instead of the new style toothpaste, you know, the one that you can stand up on the big flat cap, this was just a normal looking old-fashioned tube of toothpaste. The kind with the little cap.
This is the only kind I'll buy from now on.
It was nice to see something as simple and as familiar as that. Something that didn't give way to the modern world and change.
I recently passed the half century mark. A lot has changed since I was a kid.
I recently passed the half century mark. A lot has changed since I was a kid.
The internet, Youtube, cell phones, texting, Ipads... technology is changing how we relate to the world and to each other. Harley Davidson is experimenting with an electric motorcycle (yes, I wake up in the middle of the night screaming with that one!) and kids don't play army and make forts any more, they plug into an Xbox and have battles that last well into their thirties.
So much is changing all around us.
One day some kind of food is bad for you, the next day it is good for you. I think the only thing the diet people agree on is water, and even there we can't trust what comes out of the tap these days so we buy bottled water.
Buy water? Had someone told me that one, I'd had invested in... water?
And morality has changed as well. What was once clearly seen as sin, is now openly celebrated.
Back to the Word of God.
"I the Lord do not change." Mal 3:6 (NIV)
The Word of God remains constant and fixed like the North Star, it does not move and it can be trusted to never change. It has no cause to change, simply because truth from God 2000 years ago is the same today.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Heb 13:8
Man's opinion may vary, but God's truth remains the same.
With so much changing around us, that is what we can cling to. It is easy to be caught up in the changing seasons of mankind, but as we stay daily in the Word, it becomes the solid rock on which we stand.
I'll leave you today with something penned in 1834 by Edward Mote. Songs based on the Word of God stay relevant too, they never need to change.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
