Clearing-the-Fog

June 22, 2026

If you don’t like change, I pity you. Everything changes and it is accelerating at an alarming rate. How can we possibly keep up with all the changes?  When I graduated from college back in the dark ages, my parents gave me a cassette recorder/player for graduation.  I thought I was in tall cotton; it was so cool.  After Jan and I married, we bought a new car that had AM/FM radio – my first car with FM!  Next we had an eight-track player put in our car – some of you have no clue what an eight track player is!  And then came compact disc players – in the car, and in the home.  We had video tapes, the DVD’s and blue ray players. Then came satellite radio! And now everyone is in to livestreaming over the computer and TV.  Change.  It happens so quickly, it’s not worth going out and buy the newest and latest, because by the time you get it home, unpacked, and plugged in, it will be out-of-date and obsolete.

In fact, it has been predicted that the pace of change in the decade we are currently in will be four times faster than in the last decade we were in and the decade of 2030s will be eight times faster, with the pace accelerating and multiplying exponentially so by the time the 21^st century is finished, change will have occurred at such a rate that we will see in this century 20,000 years of progress.

 That kind of talk makes your head spin.  I am so grateful that in the midst of this tremendous change, there are some things that remains the same – God himself and His love and faithfulness toward us.  Check out this promise in Isaiah 54.

Isaiah 54:10 (NIV) – “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.”

In context, this promise is, of course, to the Jewish people who have been chastened by God by being banished from the land of promise and exiled in the strange country of Babylon.  But now their punishment is over and God is bring about restoration of the nation back to their homeland.  And His promise to them was the continuation of that special covenant relationship that they had lived under since the days of Abraham.  God’s faithful love to them had not changed, regardless of their fickleness and unfaithfulness. 

I’m glad for that, because I sometimes stray from my devotion and commitment to God – I may prove unfaithful, but I can always count on God’s faithfulness to me and His love toward me. 

Isaiah 54:10 (NIV) – “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.”