The Heart's Cry: Psalm 102

Psalm 102

Today is a day of two thoughts: birds that sit and a changing God

I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
All day long my enemies taunt me;

I read these words and I think about birds. You know the interesting thing about birds? They can fly away, and yet the Psalmist is a bird that sits. How often we are the same, staying in the same place while those who mean us harm "taunt us." We, like the bird, have the ability to 'fly' away and yet too often we stand our ground, because the ground is what is important. We are birds and we think the ground is important, do you get the irony? We should be looking to the sky for our future, looking to the sky for our place, looking to the sky.

+ Have you found yourself sitting when you should be flying? How can you better fly next time?

but you are the same, and your years have no end.

I wonder how many people have fought and killed and died on the hill of "it is an ultimate truth that God doesn't change"? I wonder if they have read the Bible, because it seems to me that God does indeed change, and quite often. God changes tactics. God changes how he deals with people. God even makes multiple bets with Abraham about Sodom as Abraham tries to find a way out of the coming destruction. God says that what you ingest causes you to be unclean. Then Jesus says that it is what comes out of your mouth, not what you put in it, that makes you unclean. God sets down laws about how you should act toward certain unclean people and then Jesus touches them. God changes all the time. But in the same way, God is the same, how does that work? Well, what if God is always God and therefore God stays the same. Who and what God is will always be who and what God is, so God stays the same. If on one hand God changes and on the other hand God is the same let's leave that original hill and move on to different ground, a hill of "God's attributes will always be God's attributes, so in that way God is the same, but God acts as God sees fit and in that way God often changes."

+ Do you believe that God changes? Why or why not?