Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Heb. 13:8
Lord Jesus, I don’t like surprises and change. I like controlled excitement and planned adventure. When it’s all said and done, I love to come home to the familiar and predictable. But until the Day of “all things new,” we live in a world of “all things disruptable.”
Flights get canceled, and critters make our home theirs. Good friends move on and loud neighbors move in. A new “top dog” in org-chart makes life vulnerable for the “puppies” below. A cough turns into bronchitis, an old car dings our new one, and new owners tear down the home we loved.
Jesus, we are thankful there’s one part of our lives that will never change, cannot be disrupted, and is always certain. And that is you and your great love for us. You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Your love for us neither peaks nor dives.
That doesn’t make you predictable, or even less so, manageable. But it does mean that we can trust you and rest in your love, no matter what’s going on in our hearts, circumstances, and world.
Disruption and change don’t have sovereignty. Only you do, Jesus. Nothing is random in this world. Nothing catches you off guard. The scary becomes the sacred when we’re wearing the lens of the gospel. Hard providences become the theatre of grace. Life isn’t about always “making lemonade from lemons.” But it IS always about trusting you.
Jesus, help each of us accept disruption and change as parts of a better story than we would never write for ourselves. You are writing our stories with the ink of grace. Until heaven, may we love you with abandon, serve you without question, and trust you with great gladness. So very Amen we pray, in your merciful and matchless name.