Motivation Monday – Why You Need To Believe In What Never Changes
“Some of us are not ready for what is ahead. I may not be ready for what is ahead.
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Every change changes everything. We are riding the crest of a new wave of change – back to some of what we knew before pandemic life, but for many of us – forward to something completely new.
Change is resisted because we are comfortable with the status quo, even if its not working for us, and because the new sense of control and even power we have over what we know is hard to surrender.
We have spent eighteen months adjusting, transitioning, to this new normal. In fact, even though we came kicking and screaming into pandemic life, we have begun to learn its rhythms, what it takes from us and what it gives us. We have become comfortable with the new Sunday morning routine of living room worship and church online. We have become used to wearing stretchy pants, and taking care of our own roots. We have learned to be resilient and accepting.
And now as things open up, we are being asked to get off the couch and get back out into the world. We are also asked to pay attention to the ever-escalating unrest in the world due to political, cultural and socio-economic injustice.
Some of us are not ready for what is ahead. I may not be ready for what is ahead.
Case in point. I spent the weekend socializing, according to new social gathering guidelines, but nonetheless, with real people in real time in a real space. And I’m exhausted. I am not used to the energy it takes to be with all the people! My introversion is wanting to go back to scheduled zoom time where I can only dress the top half of me and adjust my screen settings.
It is a change to become real again.
So, as we move forward into what is new, the old baggage that is our fear, won’t just drop off our shoulders, unless we make a focused effort to cast it off.
The fear that pandemic restrictions would never end, is the same fear we are taking with us as we face a world with new freedoms. These new changes are not only external, they are messing with our internal security.
Every change does, indeed, change everything.
So what do we do? How are we do feel? Excited but cautious? Hopeful but cynical? Free but still imprisoned to our anxiety?
I believe that as followers of Christ, we need to believe in what never changes.
Here are four truths you need to believe that have never changed, and never will change:
His Redeeming Love – does not change.
“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
His Resurrection Power – does not change.
“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 1:18-20
His Righteousness – does not change.
“ Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth.”
Psalm 119:142
His Relentless Pursuit – does not change.
“Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life.” Psalm 23:6 (The Message)
Meditate on these truths:
Psalm 102:27
“But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.”
Malachi 3:6
“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”
Hebrews 13:8
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Whatever changes are ahead for you, believe in the God who never changes.
He will hold you now and be with you in every change in your future.
I believe in you!
Cathie