The Shifting Beneath Our Feet

“And Jesus made as though he would have gone further…But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.”135 There comes a time in the life of every man when he arrives at the realization that the day is far spent. And as events move us on toward the eventide, we are brought almost to fear the passing of time, and yet again, to be impatient that it may pass more quickly and bring to us a better time. We fear change, we fear the unknown, we fear uncertainty, and the future. We wish that something would stay put, that some step on which we place our feet would not shift beneath us, that some soil in which we sink our roots would not be washed away. But with these thoughts there comes also the awareness that there has never been a time when change was not upon us. Change is a constant recurrence of life sometimes quiet, and almost imperceivable, sometimes violent and painful but always we have lived with change and always we shall. And so we must find our courage and our confidence and our faith in the knowledge that behind all change, and overruling all change, are principles that are constant, powers that are immovable, and laws that are inviolate, and when, in the course of a lifetime, we have found these certainties these sure foundations which many generations have known but which few have seized upon the changes of life become merely of passing moment as we move toward promised events toward the realization of things which the Father of all men has in mind for His children.