Some have suggested to live a healthy life three things need to happen. One, we need to feel good about ourselves. Two, we need to feel good about others. And three, we need to be able to adapt to change. Change can bring demands to change. This requires energy that we may not have.
Change often demands that we change. We may not want to change, know how to change, or have the motivation to change. But our Christian faith helps us adapt to change. God gives us what is unchangeable. He gives us himself in Jesus Christ. The writer of Hebrews said, in 13:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
How does this work? We all need a rock, security, something we can trust in. Our God gives us his grace and presence in our lives as our dear Father. If we don’t find this unchangeable truth in God, we search for it elsewhere. And the only place left to look is temporal, earthly. We are left clinging to a person, a place, or a thing for security.
In our world, temporal things are always changing. If the things of the world are where we have put our faith, all this earthly change can leave us anxious, uncertain, even fearful. At worst, our insecurity can drive us to try and control others so that we don’t have to change or feel uncomfortable.
Jesus is our unchanging rock. Clinging to Him lessens our desire to seek security through the temporal things of this world. We can meet the challenges caused by a changing world with Jesus as the center of our lives.
