The Question of the Ages

The one thing always in motion is change.  Most of us do everything we can to hold it in abeyance, but never are we successful.   With or without us, change moves along like the water which burst forth from the mountain spring to begin its journey toward the sea.  There is no stopping it.  One of the reasons we struggle against it is that we have so much invested in the status quo.  In its continuance we have placed our hopes, our dreams, our sense of security, and even the pathway for the future.  

What is most frightening to us is not political upheaval, or the splintering of religious denominations, or the seemingly out of control sociological earthquakes, but the way we are constantly moving toward a person we do not know yet.  The question of the ages used to be, "Who am I?"  In these days the question seems framed within the words, "Who am I becoming?"  As much as we would like to talk about "being" in our faith walk, the frightening thing for many of us is not who we are as much as it is who we are becoming.  

When Jesus said, "Follow me" and we said, "Yes," we started walking not down a road of certainty, but one of unfolding change.  This walk toward becoming whom God is bringing into existence is a new adventure every day and we can only do it if we are truly dependent on God's grace to take us wherever and our faith in Him to do so.  The God of the Universe has everything in His hands, even change, and as we are changing from conception to the day He is currently giving us, we are in His sure and steady hands.