Change never ends

We see it as a disturbance to our stability. We react negatively to anything that takes us out of our routine. We feel uncomfortable or out of control.

But I note that we somehow manage to cope with autumn!

We praise the colours of the trees in Verulamium Park or in Batchwood. Without autumn there would never be spring.

We don’t complain about the dewy mornings with spiders’ webs that glisten as the temperature drops.

We notice that the fields around St Albans and Harpenden have changed from gold to brown and yet life still goes on.

We manage even when the clocks go back … or is it forward … well it’s a pretty significant change either way.

We look at ourselves and see change everywhere. Our bodies age. So do our minds.

We experience new emotions, see new sights, value new friendships and realise how dull life would be without such things.

The fact is that in nature and in life change, never-ceasing change, is the norm, not the interruption.

For those of us who seek to be followers of Jesus, we recognise the amazing beauty of God’s created order all around us and in us.

We acknowledge the Creator who is constant but who longs for us to let him change us.

From spiritual death to abundant life. Life in all its changing fullness.

Life that will outlive physical death so that that is no longer the one, ultimate change for us.

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