Plus ça change

Every day we’re standing in a time capsule
Racing down a river from the past
Every day we’re standing in a wind tunnel
Facing down the future, coming fast

Neil said that too.

I don’t think its change that we’re so afraid of, it’s that we can’t choose what things won’t change. A new year – new possibilities. Often, its more like: A new year - new inevitabilities. Its as if we let one thing change, even if its no big deal, everything else will follow suit. We lose complete control of the status quo. We don’t recognize anything any more. We can’t figure out how we fit in the new order of things.
The problem is the time capsule in the lyric above. At some point in our lives we take a snapshot of the way things are and become very afraid of anything that is not in our snapshot. But life is a moving picture, each frame only slightly different from the previous, but different. Scenes change. The movie is in fast forward. We feel like we can’t keep up, and we don’t even want to. But we are swept along.
So its hard to understand why an unchanging God changes things for us. It must be that we have got to change. We have felt You move and cannot stay the same (Robbie Seay). So as He molds us, breaks us, mends us, makes us. We’ve got to remember that He is unchanging. We are in the grasp of an unchanging God. Plus ça change, Plus c’est la même chose.
I’m with Dave on this one, I choose change.