Thoughts Resulting from a Couch....

"Did you see where we put the couch?" My brother Sam said to me as I walked into the house after seeing a movie with my other brother. It turned out that my grandma gave us her old couch yesterday.

When I walked into our school room and saw her couch sitting there, different feelings flooded into me. It was dark and quiet in the room when I went to check out the couch. I sat down where I normally sit as if I was at my grandparents. As I brought my knees up to my chin and squeezed the matching pillow to myself, I couldn't help but be taken back to when I was still very young and sitting on that same couch....but at my grandparents.

My brother Andrew and I often spent the night at their house and that's what really choked me up. After a long day of adventures with Grandma and Grandpa, we would put on our pajamas and make ourselves comfortable on the couch. The only light in the room shone from a single lamp and the television which would be playing anything from ice skating, golf, HGTV, or The Price Is Right. It wouldn't be turned up very loud since we were supposed to be quieting down before bed. I would lay my head on a pillow leaned against the armrest and curl myself into a ball. My grandma would cover me with a blanket and her dog, Cinnamon, would lay next to me. I would always watch the TV through half-closed eyelids until my grandma told us it was time for bed.

As I sat on that couch last night and thought back to all the memories, I grew somewhat sad for time has gone by so fast. Time is running away from me and I can't seem to catch it. I can't even keep up.

So many things have changed! I don't want my grandma's couch at our house...it belongs in her family room!

Change. Sometimes it's so hard to get used to. Things change, places change, people change. Nothing stays the same it seems.

Except that's not true.

God never changes! He is ALWAYS there and he will never change. He will always remain the same God and he will never leave our side. Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." 

Sometimes change is good. Yet other times change is looked upon as unsettling. Personally, I'm not a huge fan that my grandma's couch is now sitting upstairs in our school room. It doesn't seem right and it's just out of place. I have friends who I used to be best friends with who I hardly talk to anymore! All these are examples of change and they happen to everyone. That's just life.

However, we must be reminded that our God will never change. Although our world may change, our God will forever remain the same.

"They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will al wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment and they pass away; but thou art the same, and they years have no end." --Psalms 102:26-27