WHILE some things never change, we can't say that about life in the last century.


It has been written that if we were to put the entire world's knowledge from the beginning of time until 1845 on a graph it would measure only one inch tall. From 1845 to 1945 -- just 100 years -- the graph would measure three inches tall. But from 1945 until today the graph would be as tall as the Washington Monument.
Change, rapid change, has become the order of the day. They say that today's average worker will need to be retrained at least three times during his working career to keep up with all the changes. Changes in technology, our manner of living, relationships, beliefs, philosophy, morals, and so on, are happening so fast it is difficult to keep up with all of them. It can leave us reeling and stressed to the maximum.


And while we have learned how to put a man on the moon and talk to him while he is there, we hardly know how to talk to one another in a meaningful manner when we are in the same room!


Much of our modern education with access to almost unlimited knowledge has taught us how to make a living but it hasn't taught us how to live.
And without an anchor for the soul we can be left floating on a restless changing sea of uncertainty and insecurity.


But for those who have faith in God, of this one thing we can be absolutely sure … He changes not! His love is from everlasting to everlasting and He is still in control of the world and universe no matter what.


In the United States we have engraved on our coins, "In God we trust." But until that is engraved on our hearts and we genuinely trust in the God who changes not, we will have no lasting security.


T.O. Chisholm wrote:
"Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not,
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!"

-- Daily Encounter, published by ACTS International, a non-profit organisation in San Clemente, California, the
US.