10 He also says, “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.
11 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
12 You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed.
But you remain the same, and your years will never end.”
Take a moment to look around you. Go ahead, look around. Everything you see is temporary. We like to think of this world as so permanent, so solid, changing so slowly that it might as well be permanent. We look back and try to imagine the process that shaped the landscapes we see. Floods and storms, meteor showers and volcanic activity, seismic shifts and galactic implosions and explosions, all involved in the shaping of our physical world. We peer beyond the ‘big bang’ and try to imagine a universe without a universe. Our brains hurt. But looking back seems to be easier than looking forward. Since we view this world as so permanent, so solid, thinking about it not existing seems preposterous. And yet, it is going to go out of existence, and a new one will take its place. Only the Lord remains forever. He never has changed and He never will. Now how do we fit that into our minds? We might not be able to imagine a future without this universe, a universe of change, but we have even greater difficulty in this changing universe to imaging something, someone who doesn’t change, who stays the same. In our culture, sameness has come to mean obsolescence, out of fashion, ready for the garbage heap. Our minds have been trained to think of the ‘new’ as much better than the old. We seek new gadgets and experiences hoping they will fill our emptiness, only to be repeatedly disappointed. The newest thing won’t satisfy, because every thing is only temporary, and temporary’s ability to satisfy is limited, temporary. Seek Someone who never changes; He can satisfy those inner longings.
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