Things change. We change. Our lives change every day. You can see it happening in newborn babies. One day they are small and the next they have grown out of the outfit they just wore two days ago. Our marriages change. Our husbands and wives mature and grow. Sometimes we grow together and other times we seem to grow apart from one another. Then, inevitable, we drift back towards each other. Our favorite TV shows end their run and all we have to look forward to are re-runs we have seen millions of times and know verbatim. People move away and we miss them terribly.

Why are our lives in such a flux? What if anything, is constant? Well, our parents are always our parents, even if sometimes we accumulate new ones, we still have a connection to the old ones. The sun always rises in the east and two plus two is always four.

God never changes either. Oh, some would say that some of the stuff He wrote (ok, through someone else) wasn’t what He really meant to say. Or that he didn’t count on the world progressing as far as it did, and that if He knew what was “really” going on here He would have amended it a little. For instance:


“ An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.” Proverbs 24:26

And

“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” 1Corintians 12:6

Surely He didn’t mean that we should be completely honest and tell our significant other that we have been unfaithful, shouldn’t we keep that to ourselves and hope that they never find out? Won’t it go better for them in the long run if they never find out what horrible, wretched people we are on the inside? I’m being sarcastic, of course. Yes, those would be hard scenarios to deal with, but it is better to confess to God and to confess to the person we have wronged so we can set forth on a new path with a clear conscience never having to look back. Those bags of skeletons can get really heavy after a while.

What about what God says concerning homosexuality? He didn’t mean that we are supposed to hate a whole sect of humanity because they don’t practice the same sexual practices we do are we? Do we need to find a state that we can declare to be “Gay State” and send all of the homosexual people there? I, personally don’t believe that we are supposed to do anything regarding this issue…and it’s a big one… God will deal with what God will deal with. We are to love as Christ loved. Remember the woman who was caught in adultery? She deserved a good stoning for committing that sin. It was written in the Law. One of the Ten Commandments. She had broken it most definitely; there was no denying it. But what did Jesus do? Let’s see:

“ The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
“But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him. He straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
“He then bent down and continued writing in the sand. One by one they all went away. Until Jesus was standing alone with the woman. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
“No one sir.” she said
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.” ”
John8: 3-11

The wise men brought the sinner to Jesus and HE did the forgiving. They were right in judging her sin, but the question of condemnation comes from God. Our calling is to lead those who are living a sinful life TO God FOR forgiveness. When we do ANYTHING else we are presuming to BE a god. Read the parable of the speck of wood found in Luke 6:37-42. Jesus says in verse 42:

“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye and then you will SEE CLEARLY to remove the speck from your brothers eye.” (Emphasis added)

When we clearly see that forgiveness comes from God, then we are able to give it. We are able to live in a corrupt world with corrupted sinners and lead them out of bondage and to Jesus Christ. The only constant in our lives needs to be Jesus. Whatever you call it, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Great Spirit etc…. Either way you spell it, the only port in a storm is God. He is the Alpha and the Omega. There’s nothing else, baby.