Consistently Constant

Do you like consistency?  Being a creature of routine, I thoroughly enjoy consistency...for the most part.  When my world is consistently good, I smile, laugh, and enjoy life.  When my world becomes consistently bad, as it does at times, the smile disappears into a grimace, my laughter becomes jaded, and I'm not thrilled with life.

Let me give you a simple example: In my office area we have a copier.  It's a wonderful device that staples, punches holes, prints in color, scans and emails documents and is fairly quick.  When it's working properly, I am a happy guy getting all manner of tasks completed.  When it decides to do its own thing, my happiness turns to thoughts of vile means of destroying this traitorous menace.

Let me ask a question: When Life is going great, are we praising God for the wonderful life?  What about when life isn't going so great, are we blaming God for being fickle?  God is consistent!  He does NOT change.  He is ALWAYS good.  And when He does something that is good for us, we may not like it, but God is still good. 

God allows us to be tested by the enemy, but He does NOT let the enemy win.  Our testing is to shape us and strengthen us.  Therefore, I challenge you to praise God every single day for the next 30 days, regardless what's happening.  Praise Him and thank Him for being consistently good and loving. 

Are you in?

Embrace It

I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.

John 14:27 

 

Perhaps it's because I'm just old and settled.  Perhaps I have become something of a curmudgeon.  But I am not a huge fan of change.  Change....disrupts my comfort with the moving and shifting around of what had become my routines.  But here's something to consider, and it's causing me more than a little discomfort, Life comes with Surprises! 

 

When life seems to be going my way, I am happy and thankful.  And the longer it seems to be going my way, the more I give in to the temptation to get comfortable.  Thus when change comes...I don't like it.  However, from Jesus' words to us, when everything else changes, God's presence never does!

 

As Jesus sends us into new adventures, we travel with the Holy Spirit!  Because of this constant, we can embrace what's next anchored in the fact of God's unchanging presence.  Change is not only part of life, it is also God's strategy to prepare us for His plans for us!  If we don't change, we don't grow and we don't learn!