Consider that everything you’ve ever known has changed. The parents who chased you around the living room are now gray-haired and aging. The newborns you stared at for hours while they were sleeping in their cribs are now taking violin lessons, swinging a baseball bat, and driving automobiles on our public roadways! Your favorite book has coffee stains in it. Your cozy jacket has a hole in the elbow. Your childhood taste for PB&Js has been supplanted by a love for fall-off-the bone baby-back ribs.
May’s green grass will quickly become July’s withered yellow. The flowers showing off their colors right now will soon (too soon for some of us) drop their petals. The NE Patriot’s dynasty has been usurped by the KC Chiefs. AI hype will be replaced in due course with some newer tech-hype. It all fades. It all changes. It all decays.
But to keep you from falling into a spiral of mourning the futility of it all, God puts a portion of bread in one hand and a cup of wine in the other to convince you that there is One Thing that does not, will not, has not, and can not change. But bread is itself the result of all sorts of mutations and changes; from seed, to blade, to grain, to flour, to dough, to loaf. Similarly, wine is the product of a long series of transformations. Nevertheless, these two together form a meal that is God’s unchanging Word to you. That Word is a certain word. As God promised David so this meal assures you: My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him (Psa 89:28). Here is a covenant meal, made of changeable things, intended to direct your faith to lay hold upon the steadfast promise of Him who cannot change.
So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ…
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