God Remains Faithful

January 29, 2017

Day 29:  Medicine Changes, God Does Not:
"Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.  He never changes or casts a shifting shadow."  —James 1:17

Today, Anderson shares a very simple truth—God never changes.  "The same prayers of hope and healing prayed for patients thirty years ago, fifty years ago, one hundred years ago, even one thousand years ago, are still heard at the beside here and now."  As doctors and scientists have become more knowledgable about the body, mind, and world, medicine has changed, but God remains the same  The methods He uses to help us heal may change with the advancement of human discovery, but God himself does not change.  We don't have to worry about falling pray to His whims and fancies like the Greeks had to with their gods.

So... as I scroll my Facebook homepage and see post after post of the injustices of Trump's brave new world: the regulatory powers of federal agencies he's frozen; the silencing of the Nation Parks Service, the USDA, and the EPA; the lies (sorry, I mean "alternative facts") he is trying to get us to swallow re: inauguration crowd size and illegal voting so he can comfort his wounded ego; his reinstatement of the global gag order which defunds international organizations if they suggest abortion as a medical option; the HR7 bill; the continuing of the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline; the ridiculously costly (and ineffective) wall that he insists Mexico will pay for (they won't and they've said they won't); the resignation of the entire senior level of management of the State Department; the 20 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico which Trump believes will pay for the wall (it won't, and it will only hurt trade); the idea that transgender equality is "absurd" and that torture of terrorism suspects is "justified;" and last, but certainly not least, the Muslim ban, which is far reaching and not simply Muslim focused (and it's only week one of his presidency) —I can be encouraged by the fact that God is constant. Even in the midst of all of these shifting shadows, these deeply frightening changes and unsettling uncertainties, I can rest assured that God remains faithful. So must I.