 Posted on Fri, Feb 26, 2010 A little over nine years ago my wife and I packed up four of our five children and moved to Orange County, Indiana. Quite a change from living in Indianapolis, one which took a couple of my kids some time to forgive me. After all it was for the most part the only life they knew. Even for me it was lifestyle I had never known. For the first 11 years of my life I was a Navy brat, moved up and down the East Coast a couple of times. Lived on or around Naval bases that whole time. Then when my Dad retired we moved to the Northeast side of Indy, to a place called Lawrence. For the next 25 years, with the exception of when I joined the Navy, I always lived within a few miles of Indy. In that time I watched farmland and wooded areas become stripmalls and housing additions. I've saw my old fishing hole turn into lake front property for high dollar homes. Even my old high school has had so many face lifts and building additions I don't recognize it, I even tell people where I went to school does not exist anymore, its changed that much. And OMG! I won't even start about how the traffic had gotten worst. I ventured up to Indianapolis for the first time in three years this past weekend. And once again the place I spent a good chunk of my life was changing again. Old buildings were torn down, new ones were being built. New stores and shops replacing my teenage hangouts. And the traffic was still no better despite all of the new road construction going on. Lot and lots of changes. But it was the next day I really learned about change. Or should I say the lack thereof. It was while driving to church and thinking about all that I had seen while I was up in Indy that God laid Hebrews 13:8 on my heart. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." What pleasure we can take in that simple verse. That no matter how much time passes that Jesus will never change. Who He was when He walked and talked to Peter, James, John, and all of the others that followed Him 2000 years ago is the same Jesus that abides with us now. And He will be the same Jesus that will be with our multiple greatgrand children if He tarries. But read the last word in this verse again, FOREVER. That means when we get to Eternity He will be the same. And if we know Him now we will know Him then. And nothing can change that! In His Majesty's Service ~Kingschyld~ No messages have been posted. You must first create an account to post.
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