Good morning. I think we will have a very interesting combination this morning. We're going to start with Psalm 46. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change ... It then goes on to talk about all kinds of bad things happening to the world. But we're looking at the word change. We all hate change when it looks like there may be something bad coming. We have a fear of the unknown. Better the devil you know than the one that you don't know. I especially do not like change. However I usually adapt to it fairly quickly. There is a comfort in the same routine day after day. But of course that can be called being in a rut. If you keep digging the rut deeper and deeper, at some point you then cannot see over the edge and then you call it a ditch. Keep digging and it's a canyon. Change can be good or bad. It's what we allow God to do with it that makes a difference. As the Psalm says when it is God doing the changing there is nothing to fear. Verse 10: cease striving and know that I am God. When we fight against His changing, then we're fighting against God Himself. So we need to determine is it God that's doing the changing, or is it something else? And then an unusual verse to go along with this from second Peter. But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men. Revelation 21: and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth passed away. How does this relate? God does not take away the old (change something) without providing something new and even better. If God is doing the changing there is nothing to fear – it will be even better than ever. Father help the reader to know when change is from You and when it's not. Help him/her to be confident that if it is You, then it will be even better than ever.

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