As I write this, it is mostly sunny, 79 degrees, with only a slight breeze outside. I am sitting on my front porch with the ceiling fan on low. It is a very pleasant day. Yesterday the temps reached into the high 80s.
It feels as if summer has arrived, but I know better. Rain is expected later today and the temperature is supposed to drop. The weekend forecast is for wet, chilly and windy conditions. Such is the reality of spring. About the time I get used to a few days of warm temperatures and sunshine, the cooler temps and wet weather make a comeback. Summer will arrive in earnest but until it does we work our way through this season of transition.
The longer we live the more we understand that life is a series of transitions, one after another. Just when I get used to the weather, or my circumstances in life, things change.
Sometimes I feel like things are moving forward and I am making progress, and other times I feel like things are moving backwards and I am regressing. The one constant on which I can depend is that life will be different.
I get the impression that many people believe heaven is a place where nothing changes. I’m not so sure about that. Scripture teaches the immutability of God (for example, God does not change). One way of thinking about immutability is that God is perfect and if God is perfect then God does not need to change. God does not grow. God can do new things according to the Bible, but doing new things does not change the person or existence of God…
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