Desert sands shift. The surface is never the same two days in a row.
Trees put out new limbs each year. The ocean alters the shoreline from decade to decade. Over thousands of years, underwater volcanoes change the number of islands in the sea.
Plate tectonics dictate that our continents will eventually reform into brand new ones.
Things are not always the same. That’s a dictate of God. Children grow. Churches expand. Nations mature. It’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Even God’s rules and regulations change with time. Want proof? It’s found in Acts 10:11-15.
“And [Peter] saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ But Peter said, ‘By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.’ And the voice came to him again a second time, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’ ”
These were animals forbidden in the laws found in the Pentateuch, or the books of Moses. God gave Moses the laws for the people. They were inviolate, and to break them was to break communion with the almighty God.
Then God takes a different stand. He reverses his earlier call. He adjusts the rules. He says, “What I’ve declared clean, you may no longer call evil.”
When we’re stuck and can’t move forward, maybe it’s not the devil. Maybe we’re not listening to God’s new voice. The laws were still there, written down for all to see, yet God’s new voice superseded the old. Our Lord said to pay attention, because the world was changing, and he needed Peter to change with it.
When God instructs us to embark down a new road, let’s not hesitate. He’s got something good waiting when we get to the end.
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