Chris Jewell: Everything changes through time but not God

We know about climate changes, but there are many more and no doubt will continue to be so.

Our landscape changes, first and horribly through the actions of war, but also due to seasonal changes, new buildings changing landscapes, technical innovations, population changes and so on.

Society, wherever it is, also changes with legal and government changes, changes in attitudes to many issues and cultural changes. In more recent times it seems the speed of change has got faster and faster.

As a consequence, life seems so much more uncertain as well as our place in it. As individuals we want to feel loved and yet even that certainty seems more elusive and temporary.

Yet in the midst of all this, one thing has never changed. That is the love that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit has for us. The arms of Jesus remain outstretched to gather us to Him, that we might feel the benefit of His protection, the warmth of His love which will never die, and the practical help His Holy Spirit provides for us through our lives, plus the hope of eternal life with God as He first determined it should be.

Many of us will have loved, and have loved deeply, yet it is impossible to describe the depth and the quality of God’s love towards each one of us. His words to us in the bible are full of His promises towards those of us who will follow after His ways and not the fancies of an ever-changing world.

As you ponder at this coming Easter time about the coming and the life of Jesus and why He should be put through such a horrible death and miraculous resurrection, do try and find the time, despite all the pressures living puts upon us, to consider these things and turn your heart towards that One who loves you so.

‘I am the resurrection and the life’ Jesus tells us. ‘The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.’ That’s the promise of everlasting life in heaven with our Father and His Son. Free to you and me who will believe.