Changeless Christ for a changing world
Bienhome Muivah *
Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church [1], Ashfield, New South Wales
Pix from Wikipedia / Alfred Handel, d. 1946[2], photo:Toby Hudson
We face many transitions in life and realize how rapidly our world changes.
The book FUTURE SHOCK details the enormous changes taking place both in number and in speed of change. We feel as though we are riding a merry-go-round that goes faster and faster until everything around us is blurry.
What can we count on?
What solid object can we grasp?
Change can be positive or negative, but in either case we need to adjust to it.
In Malachi God says to Israel, 'I the Lord do not change' so you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed' (Malachi 3:6).
He implies that Israel has turned from God and gone back on her Covenant responsibilities. She has changed in her relationship to God.
But God reaffirms His love. He does not go back on His covenant promises.
He pleads, "Return to Me, and I will return to you" (Malachi 3:7).
In this changing world we often stand guilty of changing our loyalties from God to the enticements of worldly progress.
But God, who sent His son to fulfill His covenant promise by dying on the Cross for our sins, declares to us. "I the Lord do not change". He provides solid ground for us as we come to Him in repentance.
Indeed, we have a changeless Christ for a changing world.
* Bienhome Muivah wrote this article to Heuiyen Lanpao (English Edition)
The writer is BD, Evangelist at MBC Centre Church, Imphal
This article was webcasted on December 24 2012.
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