Change is inevitable.
If you didn't know that then you have not been alive long enough. Whether it's a change in location, in job, or diet - change is a big part of life.
Last night as Amy and I spent some time at home after her trip we turned on the final episode of ER. Amy loves ER (after all she's a nurse) and I have seen ER since I was around 15 years old (my mom is a nurse and loved watching it too). For 15 years doctors and nurses have saved patients and seen patients die. 15 years the drama that is ER has brought up controversial subjects and characters. For 15 years people tuned in to see the ER in action. And now it is over.
Now I am not here to mourn the loss of ER (after all...it's just a tv show). But as the show ended I thought about where I was 15 years ago when ER started. I was a kid in high school at the time who thought he knew everything and was more interested in girls and video games than anything else. Those two interests may not have changed (though the girls I'm interested in now all live in my house) but my life has forever been changed because of what Christ has done in my life.
In fact, I had no idea that it would be a couple years later that God would grab me, break me and forever change me. Since that night at camp when the Lord saved me my life has continued to change.
I have seen myself stumble and fall.
I have seen myself stand on the mountain top.
I have gone on mission trips
I have gotten married
I have finished college
I have had three children
I have found an amazing church home
I have grown in my spiritual walk
Change has happened...and all of it has made me who I am now. Whether it was a blessed event like the birth of my children or a family hardship - the Lord has caused or allowed all of these things in my life for His glory and my good.
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28
"For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever." Romans 11:35-36
And the CHANGE is not over.
If you are born again...if you have been forgiven through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ then you will one day be FOREVER changed.
"Behold I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruptible and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruptible, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, were is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?'" 1 Corinthians 15:51-55
Imagine that day when we are changed from these mortal bodies with their sin and pain to bodies that have been made perfect. Bodies without blemish or suffering. Bodies that have been purged of corruption and death and are holy because they have been made new through the atonement of Christ.
That will be the greatest change we can ever imagine. We will be able to see our Lord and know Him as we are known. It will be the ultimate change that will forever be remembered for all of eternity.
Unlike the last episode of ER.
"But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57
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