Changeless As Ever, Forever

 The previous post talked about the constancy of change.

Juxtaposed to Change is the Constancy of what/Who cannot change...

The sky this morning was GORGEOUS, but something that never seems to change is

my habit of setting sunglasses and camera anywhere, 

so therefore it seems I spend half my summer hunting for one or the other.

I didn't get a picture of the dawn-sky (or last night's stunner of a sunset)

 but found my camera in the pantry a bit ago while making lunches.

I think I set it there after dashing out to

take these shots yesterday while making supper...

...another thing that doesn't change is the pile of work that won't wait,

waiting after a week away!

 But SO satisfying afterwards!

Changeless above all is the Word that IS God...

As changing as the surface of the sea

That ebbs and surges, is the toll of time

Colour and texture shift; humanity

As it adapts to each precarious clime

Is apt to drift on swells of idle talk

If not secured upon the Solid Rock

Ah, changeless as the ticking of the clock

This life is lashed by season’s shifting tides

Where clash of wills and warped logic may balk

Unshakeable, the Word of God abides

Then cling with faith, not sight, lest quest for proof

Cast dark shadows of doubt on timeless Truth

Beneath, above, beyond thought’s leaky roof

Unchanging is the One Time cannot thwart

Authority and love works for our good

While prophecy unfolds foretold report

While pleasure-pirates loot but cannot find

Enough of stuff to satisfy the mind

Unchanging is the plight of humankind

…we are all creatures full of utter need

Dependent on a pattern God designed

For we rebel, just like Adam and Eve

And we would all be sailors lost at sea

Without the Rock, secured at Calvary

This Rock is Jesus; He who sets us free

Anchors the Soul, lest dreadfully we drift

Toward the shoreline of eternity

Each breath we take diminishes the rift

Where change estranges much with shifting tides

But still the love and Word of One abides

We cannot overthrow what God decides

Alpha, Omega, Beginning and End

Will soon unveil the proof the Fool derides

And faith alone is called on to defend

Nearer and nearer draws the Awesome Hour

When Christ will reappear in glorious pow’r

© Janet Martin

the hymn below is especially meaningful in times like these!!

 Here is a sky-shot from two evenings ago!