I tell myself that I am a fan of change. I tell myself that I will get bored if things always stay the same. Then change happens. That’s when I discover that the kind of change I like is the kind that is shiny, has dead presidents on it, and conjures up marvelous treasures when deposited into vending machines.

Change is scary. Change is unpredictable. Change is also the only constant in this life, other than maybe death and taxes. You can pretty much count on the fact that when you’ve got everything  figured out and you’re finally in a comfortable routine, something is about to change.

Someone you know dies or loses a loved one. Your favorite TV show gets cancelled. A favorite morning radio show that has gotten you through the morning for several months is abruptly going away. OK, that last one was mine.

The point of this is that changes are inevitable as they are unpredictable and uncontrollable. Unless you have a Ph.D in ESP, you can’t know when changes are coming or how to get ready for them. Well, sometimes you can, but many times you have no fair warning.

There’s a song I like by one of my favorite artists, Julie Miller. The chorus of the song goes like this:

“the only thing that doesn’t change
makes everything else rearrange
is the speed of light, the speed of light
your love for me must be the speed of light”

There is one other constant beside change, death, and taxes. There’s something that doesn’t change. God Himself says that He doesn’t change. He doesn’t lie or change His mind or fall back to plan B because plan A failed. God is always the same yesterday, today, and forever, as a well-quoted verse says.

God’s love doesn’t change either. It truly does make everything else rearrange. You can’t be confronted by the love of God and not be changed in some way. You can walk away and reject that love, but you can’t not choose.

I’d say that the Love of God is worth pursuing, worth whatever it will cost to find. The good news is when you find it, you find that this Love was pursuing you the whole time and that Love has already paid all the cost involved. All that’s left for you is to receive it.

Change can be a very good thing, especially when it’s you being changed and transformed by God’s love. That is the absolute best kind of change, because it’s you who gets to be all shiny and new.